Want to Create a Bow Tie Risk Analysis/Assessment in Excel?

QI Macros has a Ready-Made Bow Tie Template!

Use a Bow Tie Risk Analysis to Evaluate:

  1. Hazards and threats (e.g., software viruses)
  2. Barriers to prevent catastrophic event (e.g., anti-virus software, periodic scans)
  3. Events (e.g., system shutdown due to software virus
  4. Barriers to prevent harm to others (e.g., shutdown and full system scan)
  5. Consequences of not preventing virus intrusion

QI Macros includes two types of bow tie templates

Bow Tie Assessment - Example 1

example of bow tie risk assessment


Bow Tie Assessment - Example 2

bow tie-risk assessment example


Find the Bow Tie template by clicking on QI Macros menu > Improvement tools > Hazard Analysis - Bow Tie. The template has several tabs. There are two box tie assessment templates. One is similar to the Shell Oil template and another format was provided by a customer:

tabs in hazard analysis template


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The Bow Tie Risk Analysis is one of many tools included in QI Macros add-in for Excel.

QI Macros adds a new tab to Excel's menu, making it easy to find any tool you need. If you can't locate a tool, use the find tools feature on the far right side of QI Macros menu.

find tools on QI Macros menu

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