Bowtie Risk Visual
by PRANA IT Solutions Ltd
Bowtie risk analysis and barrier management in Power BI, for process safety, HSE and risk teams.
Bowtie Risk Visual draws bow-tie risk diagrams from the risk register you already have in Power BI. No separate tool, no re-keying, no drawing by hand.
Causes on the left flow through prevention barriers to the top event, then through mitigation barriers to consequences on the right. Barrier groups collapse to a summary card — count, health dots, open and overdue actions — and expand to individual barriers on a click. The risk score badge takes its colour from your own risk matrix.
Two views, one dataset. Risk Bowtie shows one risk in full. Barrier View puts a barrier at the centre and shows every risk, cause and consequence it protects across your whole portfolio — for barrier owners managing safety-critical elements that appear in a dozen bow-ties.
Free
- Risk Bowtie in the Grouped layout, with expand/collapse barrier groups
- Health, action and overdue counts on every barrier and on the risk
- Hover tooltips
Premium (one-month free trial)
- Vertical and auto layouts, with pan, zoom and path highlighting
- Barrier View
- Click any node for a detail panel with linked actions; titles link straight to your risk platform if you supply a URL
- Cross-filter other visuals; drill through to your own detail pages
- Full colour, font and toolbar customisation
More than 100 users? Ask us about volume pricing through a private plan.
Setup in five minutes. One flat table drives both views. A ready-made Power Query script, free on our docs site, builds it from your Risk, Cause, Consequence, Barrier and Action tables — edit twelve table and column names and you're done. Barriers shared across several risks are handled natively.
Built for oil & gas, process safety, manufacturing, pharma, power, mining, chemical, aviation and maritime. Works with ISO 31000, IEC 31010, NORSOK Z-013 and CCPS bow-tie practice.
New in 1.3.1: Premium licensing is now enforced. Without a licence, reports that use Premium features show the free Grouped layout. Your layout settings are kept, and Premium views return as soon as a licence is assigned. Also new: zoom, pan and the Expand All / Collapse All toolbar in every Premium layout; Format-pane colours and fonts in the Grouped and Vertical layouts; dates and numbers in the detail panel shown in each field's own format; and a Format pane that only shows the settings that apply to the chosen layout.
Help and support: https://pranaitsolutions.github.io/bowtie-visual-docs/