After the Bowties Webinar

Overview This webinar picks up where a bowtie analysis workshop leaves off, addressing the critical question: what do you actually do with your bowties once they're built? Presented by Belinda Beale, Senior Risk Consultant at R4Risk, the session walks through four practical chapters for turning bowtie outputs into lasting risk reduction. Bowtie Foundations Bowtie analysis is introduced as a visual tool linking causes, consequences, and controls around a top event — the prologue sets the baseline for attendees who may need a refresher A "good" bowtie is accurate, uncluttered, logical, and clear — and produces usable outputs including relative frequency data, control inventories, and risk ratings The core message: the real value of bowties comes not from the workshop itself, but from what happens after — the focus of the four chapters that follow: Chapter 1 — Risk Reduction Actions Chapter 2 — Control Management Chapter 3 — Performance Monitoring Chapter 4 — Communication Key Takeaways Building a good bowtie is only the beginning — the real risk reduction comes from disciplined follow-through across actions, controls, monitoring, and communication Structured ownership and reporting across all four chapters is what converts a workshop exercise into genuine operational safety improvement Bowties should influence site culture and systems, not just sit in a report — the presentation frames this as a continuous story, not a one-off event R4Risk are a specialist firm offering technical studies, process safety management and risk training across industries including mining and oil & gas.