AN Aberdeenshire headquartered start-up has launched a new software solution aimed at enhancing and streamlining the risk assessment process across the energy industry and beyond.
Process safety firm, Salus Technical, based in Portlethen, have developed Bowtie Master with the intention of helping organisations to understand and manage the risks of major accident hazards, thereby helping reduce incidents.
A cloud-based application, Bowtie Master facilitates the building and sharing of bowtie diagrams. While bowtie diagrams have been in use for a number of years as a risk assessment tool across a range of industrial sectors, Salus Technical claims this new, intuitive software offers unprecedented capabilities to design, collaborate on and share these diagrams across disciplines and organisations.
As well as oil and gas, Bowtie Master can be used across a wide range of major hazard industries including aerospace, rail, construction and cyber security.
Founder of Salus Technical, David Jamieson, developed Bowtie Master following an extensive career working in-house for major operators and service providers.
David said: “Working as a principal technical safety engineer, it’s been my experience that a significant proportion of accidents could have been prevented if the risks and barriers in place had been better understood by, or communicated to, all relevant personnel.
“We describe Bowtie Master as a lens through which to understand, visualise and communicate risk. It’s part of a wider drive towards increasing the safety competencies of individuals, teams and organisations.”
