Make Every Risk Visible. Make Every Control Accountable.
Intelex Bowtie Risk Assessment transforms complex operational hazards into a single, interactive diagram that every level of your organization can understand and act on. Built natively within the Intelex platform, it connects risk data directly to Global Risk Management so nothing falls through the cracks.
From Risk Documentation to Risk Understanding
One Diagram. Every Threat, Consequence, and Barrier.
Risk registers and hazard logs capture information. Bowtie makes it understandable. By mapping every threat, consequence, and critical control around a single defined event, Bowtie gives your entire organization a shared picture of what can go wrong and exactly what's standing in the way.
Identify Control Gaps Before They Become Incidents.
Critical controls only work when they’re assigned, monitored, and verified. Bowtie makes accountability visible: assign owners, set monitoring schedules, and surface gaps in your barrier defenses before they contribute to a catastrophic event.
Stay Connected, Current, and Audit-Ready.
Unlike standalone bowtie tools that require manual exports to connect with other systems, Intelex Bowtie integrates directly with the Global Risk Management application. Every update syncs automatically, every control verification is tracked, and your audit trail builds itself as your team works.
Key Bowtie Risk Assessment Features
Intelex Bowtie Risk Assessment gives your team the tools to build, manage, and verify risk controls across your entire organization.
Interactive Bowtie Builder
Define and manage hazards, causes, top events, consequences, and barriers directly within a dynamic visual canvas — built for real-time interaction and direct data management.
Control and Barrier Management
Assign ownership and monitoring schedules to every control and barrier in your diagram, keeping accountability clear and your risk defenses visible across the organization.
Real-Time Visualization
See your risk scenarios update instantly as conditions change. Every edit made within the diagram canvas is reflected in real time, giving your team an always-current picture of operational risk.
Grid View Sync
Every change made within the bowtie diagram automatically appears in the corresponding grid view within the same record, keeping your visual and data layers connected and consistent.
Global Risk Management Integration
Built natively within the Intelex EHSQ platform, Bowtie integrates directly with the Global Risk Management application so your risk data stays connected, current, and audit-ready in one environment.
Enterprise Risk Library
Build standardized bowtie diagrams at the corporate level and adapt them to local site conditions, maintaining a consistent risk language across every location and jurisdiction.
Built for the People Closest to Risk
Whether you're setting enterprise-wide risk strategy or managing hazards on the ground, Bowtie gives every stakeholder the clarity they need to act.
Bowtie Risk Assessment for EHS Leaders and Risk Managers
- Replace fragmented risk registers with a single, unified visual model.
- Assign critical control ownership and track verification across sites.
- Demonstrate due diligence and regulatory compliance with a built-in audit trail.
- Maintain a consistent risk language across your entire organization.
Bowtie Risk Assessment for Frontline Operators and Site Teams
- Understand complex hazard scenarios at a glance, without specialist training.
- Know which controls you're responsible for and when they need verification.
- Flag new threats or consequences directly within the diagram.
- Access up-to-date risk information from the platform your team already uses.
Bowtie Risk Assessment: Frequently Asked Questions
What is Bowtie Risk Assessment?
Bowtie Risk Assessment is a visual method for mapping the relationship between the causes of a hazardous event, the event itself, and its potential consequences. By placing a single critical event at the center, with threats fanning in from the left and consequences fanning out to the right, the bowtie diagram makes complex operational risk immediately understandable to every level of an organization, from frontline workers to executive leadership.
What is Bowtie Risk Assessment Software?
Bowtie Risk Assessment software turns the static bowtie diagram into a living, manageable system. It allows organizations to formally identify and assign controls and barriers, track ownership and verification schedules, maintain an automatic audit trail, and keep risk data connected across their broader EHS environment.
How is Intelex Bowtie Risk Assessment different from standalone bowtie tools?
Most bowtie tools operate as separate platforms, requiring manual data exports to connect with other safety systems. Intelex Bowtie Risk Assessment is built natively within the Intelex EHSQ platform, integrating directly with the Global Risk Management application. This means your risk data stays connected, current, and audit-ready in one environment, without the cost and complexity of managing a separate tool.
Which industries use Bowtie Risk Assessment?
Bowtie Risk Assessment is widely adopted in high-consequence industries where a single event can have catastrophic outcomes. The most common include oil and gas, mining and metals, and aviation, where regulatory frameworks such as UK HSE Process Safety Management requirements and ICAO Safety Management System standards require organizations to demonstrate that controls are in place and verified.
How does Bowtie Risk Assessment support regulatory compliance?
Regulators across high-hazard industries increasingly expect organizations not just to document risk, but to demonstrate that controls are verified and working. Bowtie Risk Assessment keeps a complete record of every control, owner assignment, and diagram update within the Intelex platform, giving regulators the evidence they need without requiring additional administrative effort before an inspection.
Can Bowtie Risk Assessment be used across multiple sites?
Yes. Intelex Bowtie Risk Assessment supports enterprise-wide deployment, allowing organizations to build standardized bowtie libraries at the corporate level and adapt them to local site conditions. This drives consistency in risk language and control standards across global operations while accommodating site-specific hazards.
How does Bowtie Risk Assessment connect to Intelex's Global Risk Management application?
Bowtie Risk Assessment integrates directly with Intelex's Global Risk Management application, keeping risk data connected and consistent within a single environment. Every update made within the bowtie diagram automatically syncs to the corresponding risk record, ensuring your data is always current and audit-ready without manual exports or duplicate data entry.
See Bowtie Risk Assessment in Action
Watch how Intelex Bowtie Risk Assessment helps organizations in oil and gas, mining, and aviation turn complex hazard scenarios into clear, manageable diagrams. In this demo, see how to build a bowtie, assign critical controls, and maintain an audit-ready risk record, all within the Intelex platform.
Watch and learn how to:
- Build interactive bowtie diagrams directly within the Intelex platform.
- Assign owners and monitoring schedules to critical controls.
- Surface control gaps before they contribute to incidents.
- Generate a complete audit trail automatically as your team works.
