Bowtie Training
With over 12 years delivering training, software and consulting to regulators, airlines, MROs, airports, ANSPs and military aviation, we’re recognised as the aviation industry’s leading BowTie experts.
Our Courses
BowTie in Aviation Safety Management (BowTieXP): Online
For safe and effective decision-making, BowTie is aviation’s best practice risk management tool and is used by organisations like ICAO and many regulators around the world as the preferred methodology to understand, manage and communicate safety and risk.
Packed full of examples and guided workshops, this 2 day online course will equip you with all the theory and practical skills needed to confidently use and build BowTies for use within an aviation envionment. You’ll also gain hands on experience with the leading software platform ‘BowTieXP’. The course is approved by the BowTieXP developers Wolters Kluwer Enablon.
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- Course duration: 2 days
- Price: £1050 + VAT
Who is it for?
The course suits those in positions involving risk assessment and safety management, from operational roles through to senior managers.
What does the course cover?
- BowTie methodology
- Introduction to the methodology, terminology and definitions
- Step by step guidance on building BowTies
- Best practices as well as traps and tips advice
- Use of the BowTieXP software:
- How to create diagrams
- How to customise the software to your organisation
- How to best utilise the various diagram and report outputs
- Building BowTie competencies:
- Safety case study workshops exercises
- BowTie in Safety Management System context:
- BowTie’s role within the SMS framework and ideas for practical applications
Workshop Activities:
- Operational safety case – group exercise
- Development of individual BowTie for use in your organisation
What format will the training take?
We use a mix of presentations, interactive exercises, case studies and guided workshops to make sure you get the most out of the day. Prerequisites No previous experience with BowTie required however a basic understanding of risk management principles is desirable.
Prerequisites
No previous experience with BowTie required however a basic understanding of risk management principles is desirable.
Aviation BowTie Masterclass: Online
BowTie is a great way to manage high-consequence risk, but BowTie models are only as good as the information we put into them. Refining how we use BowTie drives us towards higher quality risk assessments and more effective risk management. This 1 day online course is designed to build upon and refine the skills of existing BowTie users.
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- Course duration: 1 day
- Price: £670 + VAT
Who is it for?
This course is for participants that are already familiar with BowTie but want to develop their understanding and skills to a higher level.
What does the course cover?
- Beyond the basics: how to draft high quality BowTies
- Strategies for improving the utility of BowTies
- Identification of common traps and how to deal with them
- Insights for improving the qualitative effectiveness rating process
- Strategies for maintaining consistency across all of the organisations BowTies
- How to get the most out of BowTieXP’s Advanced software features
- Introduction to BowTieXP add-ons and BowTie Server
Case Studies:
- When BowTies go bad
- Simplifying Bowties without compromising on detail
What format will the training take?
We use a mix of presentations, interactive exercises, case studies and guided workshops to make sure you get the most out of the day.
Prerequisites
Attendees should already have completed the Across Safety 2 day BowTieXP course or similar, or have a good working knowledge of BowTieXP.
Barrier Failure Analysis for Aviation Investigations (using IncidentXP): Online
Barrier Failure Analysis for Aviation Investigations (using IncidentXP). IncidentXP is a software tool that provides a platform for conducting barrier based investigations of incidents and accidents. It facilitates the organisation of information gathered during an investigation into a logical timeline and then structures the analysis of the event according the identification of barrier failures. Next, the immediate and systemic causes of the failures are analysed in order to generate logical and effective recommendations to improve safety performance.
- Next available date:
- Course duration: 1 day
- Price: £670 + VAT
Who is it for?
Any individuals conducting or overseeing serious incident or accident investigations.
This course is designed to meet the needs of those already familiar with the concepts of incident/accident investigation but want to learn how to apply a barrier based analysis approach and to use IncidentXP software.
What does the course cover?
Use IncidentXP to:
- Construct a timeline and sequence of events
- Carry out a barrier based analysis of the occurrence
- Develop recommendations and generate reports
- Create a feedback loop to BowTieXP risk assessments to improve understanding of the risk landscape
Case Study
- Runway excursion accident
What format will the training take?
We use a mix of presentations, interactive exercises, case studies and guided workshops to make sure you get the most out of the day.
Prerequisites
Attendees should already have completed the Across Safety 2 day BowTieXP course or similar, or have a good working knowledge of BowTieXP.
Barrier Based Auditing (using BowTieXP Complete – Audits): Online
Barrier Based Auditing Training (using BowTieXP) Audits are not just a means to check compliance, they can form an ideal tool for pro-active safety performance monitoring via barrier based auditing. Barrier based auditing integrates seamlessly with BowTieXP and allows you to focus your auditing resources where they are needed most. Moreover, it lets you aggregate, track and display those results in an entirely intuitive way.
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- Course duration: 1/2 day
- Price: £350 + VAT
Who is it for?
This course is for participants that are familiar with BowTie and want to build upon it as a strategy for achieving a risk based auditing objective.
The course content is applicable to all types of risk and industries.
What does the course cover?
This course takes participants through the thinking behind how we create effective audits to provide the Safety Performance Indicators (SPIs) we need to drive informed management decisions.
The course also shows participants how to use the AuditXP software via hands on exercises which equip them with the skills to start using AuditXP right away.
Key skills gained during the course:
- How to identify SPIs
- How to draft effective audit questions
- How to create a barrier based audit
- How to use AuditXP software to create audits
- How to use AuditXP to aggregate audit results and display them on BowTie models
What format will the training take?
We use a mix of presentations, interactive exercises, case studies and guided workshops to make sure you get the most out of the day.
Prerequisites
Attendees should already have completed the Across Safety 2 day BowTieXP course or similar, or have a good working knowledge of BowTieXP.
BowTie risk & safety management in Uncrewed Aviation: In-person
At Across Safety, we’re proud to be industry leaders in aviation’s best practice risk management methodology BowTie. It’s been used by the manned industry for many years and now the uncrewed sector is following suit.
- Next available date:
- Course duration: 2 days
- Price: £1099 + VAT
Who is it for?
Designed for post holders responsible for safety management, for the development of safety risk assessments and for accountable managers. This course equips you with everything you need to implement and leverage the BowTie methodology across all key areas of your safety management processes, as well as in the preparation of high quality safety cases.
What does the course cover?
BowTie methodology
- Introduction to the methodology, terminology and definitions
- Step by step guidance on building BowTies
- Best practices as well as traps and tips advice
Use of the BowTieXP software
- How to create diagrams
- How to customise the software to your organisation
- How to best utilise the various diagram and report outputs
Building BowTie competencies and practical applications
- Building UAS specific BowTies
- How to use BowTie in the preparation of an Operational Safety Case
- Using BowTie as the foundation of a Safety Management System
Workshop Activities:
- Operational safety case – group exercise
- Development of individual BowTie for use in your organisation
What format will the training take?
We use a mix of presentations, interactive exercises, case studies and guided workshops to make sure you get the most out of the day.
Prerequisites
No previous experience with BowTie required however a basic understanding of risk management principles is an advantage
