Bowtie Analysis Software: Features & Capabilities
Bowtie Master is a cloud-based bowtie diagram tool for building, sharing and monitoring bowtie risk assessments.
Easily Build Bowtie Diagrams
Bowtie Master allows you to quickly and easily build bowtie diagrams that help you and your team understand your risk from major incidents.
Get started building your bowtie diagrams with minimal training.
User-friendly and Intuitive
No technical skills needed. Point, click and drag to build, customise and share your bowtie diagrams in minutes.
Access from Anywhere
Bowtie Master is cloud-based and accessed from your browser, so there’s no installation and you can work from anywhere.
Element Library
Build elements once and reuse them everywhere. The Element Library keeps your data consistent across every diagram and project.
Touchscreen
Review and edit your bowtie diagrams on the go. Touchscreen support works on tablets, wherever you’re working.
Share and Communicate Risk Assessment
Build and share bowtie diagrams that communicate every part of your risk assessment clearly, from threats and barriers to consequences and degradation/escalation factors.
Version Control
Create, publish and manage multiple versions of your bowtie diagrams. Need to roll back? Restore any previous version with confidence.
Customise Your Diagrams
Tailor your Bowtie Master experience to your business: customise the language, terminology and metadata, and show or hide elements.
Share a Diagram
Share your bowtie diagram as an image, a PDF or a live link, or embed it on a website. No licence needed for viewers.
Search Your Diagram
Find any element in seconds. Type a name and Search takes you straight to it on your bowtie diagram.
Understand Your Cumulative Risk
Understand and visualise the role each barrier plays in preventing an incident, or in minimising its consequences if one occurs.
Linked Barrier Metadata
Add metadata to bowtie elements, managed centrally from your settings. Link it to elements for consistent, automated updates across every diagram.
Risk Matrices
Build your own risk matrix, sized and labelled the way your organisation assesses risk. See initial risk, residual risk, or both, on your diagram.
Analyse Mode
See barrier effectiveness at a glance. Analyse Mode colour-codes your diagram by metadata type, so weak barriers stand out instantly.
Bring Your Safety Team Together
Risk is minimised when everyone’s on the same page. That’s why Bowtie Master is built with team collaboration in mind, from assigning actions to controlling access.
Multiple Users
Get the whole team involved in risk management. Add as many users as you need to collaborate on your bowtie diagrams.
Action Register
Track every safety action in one place, linked to the barrier or threat it protects. Assign owners and deadlines so nothing slips through.
Create User Groups
Tailor diagram access and permissions with User Groups. Define who can view, edit or manage specific diagrams, ideal for larger teams.
Custom Reporting
Build clear reports on how your critical barriers are performing over time, ready to share with your team, leadership or auditors.
Connect Bowtie Master to Your Systems
Bowtie Master integrates with the tools you already use, so risk data flows into your wider management system without manual double entry.
API Connection
Connect Bowtie Master to the tools you already use. Send data to Tableau or your EHS system, or pull it back in, all through our API.
Cority Integration
Already assessed the risk in Cority? Generate a bowtie diagram from it directly, no need to start again.
Power BI Connection
Connect your bowties to Power BI in minutes. Pull the data you need into a dashboard, ready to present.
Risk Dashboard
Get an overview of your risk management in one place. Pull data from every bowtie diagram, complete with tables and pie charts.
Train Your Team on Bowtie Risk
Your team can quickly visualise complex risks and understand the specific hazards at their site. Bowtie Master turns technical risk assessments into a training tool your whole team can learn from.
Visualise Barrier Roles
Gives full visibility of every barrier and the role it plays in preventing or limiting an incident.
Customise language
Bowtie Master defaults to the language set in your browser. Change your diagram terminology to match how your organisation discusses risk.
Salus Safeguard AI Assistant
SalusSafeguard is Bowtie Master’s built-in AI assistant. Chat to it about your bowtie diagram and get live feedback and guidance as you build.
Secure Risk Management
Bowtie Master offers complete protection of your process safety data, backed by a range of enhanced security features and independent accreditations.
SSO and MFA
Connect to your own identity provider for Single Sign On and Multifactor Authentication, with new users provisioned automatically on first login.
Secure Working Environment
Bowtie Master is hosted on Microsoft Azure, so your data sits in a secure, well-maintained environment.
ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus
Bowtie Master is ISO 27001:2022 certified and holds Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation, independently audited standards for information security.
Fully GDPR compliant
Bowtie Master is fully compliant with GDPR. We look after both your data and your privacy.
Customise Metadata
Get more from your bowtie diagrams with metadata. Customise it to drive consistency, clarity and deeper insight, tailored to your organisation’s needs.
Add Metadata to your Barriers
Add metadata to your barriers to capture ownership, condition and type. It gives your whole team a clearer, shared understanding of barrier performance.
Standardise Across All Types
Manage metadata centrally to keep every diagram structured, consistent and up to date across your whole team.
Flexible Field Types
Choose freetext or dropdown fields, with colour coding for instant insight at a glance.
Critical Control Management
Flag your most important barriers with a shield icon. Critical control management keeps the controls that matter most visible.
Switching to Bowtie Master
Moving to new software shouldn’t be a headache. We make it as easy as possible to switch, and support you every step of the way.
Dedicated Customer Success
Get support from a dedicated customer success specialist, with no extra billing after setup. Onboarding, training and help centre included.
Migrate Your Current Diagrams
Making the switch from BowtieXP? Migrate your existing diagrams into Bowtie Master, no need to start over.
Excel Import and Export
Import risk assessments from Excel, or export your data whenever you need it. We’ll transfer your existing diagrams into Bowtie Master while we set you up.
Our Customers
We’ve worked with a wide range of customers of all sizes in a variety of sectors, from Aerospace, Oil & Gas, Rail & Transport, Utilities, right through to Marine, Mining, Cyber security and so much more.Ready to get started?
Take the first step in transforming your risk management practices today!
Book a demo to see how you can unlock the full potential of Bowtie Master. Our user-friendly software will empower your team to effectively communicate, visualise, and mitigate operational risks.