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Chapter 02 of 23 · HAZ · Hazard Register

Bow-tie hazards,barriers you can audit.

Every hazard is a bow-tie: threats on the left, the top event in the middle, consequences on the right, with barriers between them. Each barrier carries a status you can audit (effective, weak or failed) that updates when it is tested. Hazards link to the SPIs that watch them and the occurrences that prove them real.

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The barrier lights up
The occurrence snaps onto the ramp vehicle collision hazard. On the bow-tie, the vehicle marshalling procedure barrier reads degraded: one of eight on the family strip, and every record that touches it is one click away.
Previously, on this operation
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In the operation
HAZHazard Register
4capabilities
3record types
4linked modules
Why it holds

A barrier status is a fact, not a colour on a slide.

Every barrier between a threat and the top event carries an audited status. When an occurrence shows a barrier failed, the register updates and the SPI watching it hears about it. The hazard picture reflects the operation, not last year's workshop.

What it does

The capabilities, on one record.

Bow-tie register

Threats, top event and consequences on one model, with the barriers between them named and owned.

Auditable barriers

Each barrier carries a status (effective, weak, failed) that updates when tested, not a colour someone painted once.

SPI linkage

Every hazard links to the safety indicators that watch it, so drift on a barrier trips a signal.

Occurrence evidence

When an occurrence weakens a barrier, it links straight to the hazard. The register is proven by the operation.

The records it produces

Real records, one reference each.

Every record carries a stable reference and a source on every field. Nothing is silently overwritten, and the trail is the record.

Every hazard is a bow-tie, not a line in a log

Barrier status is audited, not assumed

Hazards link to the SPIs that watch them

An occurrence that fails a barrier updates the register

HAZ
Hazards
Bow-tie models with named barriers.
BAR
Barriers
Effective, weak or failed, audited.
SPI
SPIs
Watch the barriers that matter.
The gate

Barriers carry a status, not a hope.

Effective, weak or failed, and the status updates when audited or when an event defeats it. A barrier nobody has assessed cannot be counted as protection.

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03 · Investigations

The defeated barrier is named. The investigation now has to prove how it was defeated, and what else that answer touches.