About Optifora

Does Optifora have a bowtie module?

The bowtie module is <strong>on the roadmap</strong> today — we do not present it as a working screen and we do not describe something that does not exist. What does exist and is measured is the method catalogue: 34 risk assessment methods, each recorded with its inputs, scale table, formula, result bands and action rule. The bowtie sits there as a qualitative method; the catalogue also records that it has no numeric band and that numeric effectiveness thresholds were not measured.

What exists today

What is measured and recorded on the risk side of the platform is the method catalogue: 34 methods, each with input variables, scale table, formula, result bands and action rule. The bowtie is in that catalogue, explicitly marked as qualitative and as producing no score.

What does not exist

There is no screen today that draws bowties, holds barrier ownership and runs a test schedule. Rather than calling it "coming soon" we write it as it is: the module is on the roadmap. Describing a screen that does not exist means showing a visitor something we do not have.

What the catalogue provides

FieldWhat the bowtie row records
InputsHazard, top event, threats, consequences, preventive and recovery barriers, escalation factors and their barriers
ScaleNo numeric scale; five barrier types, and detect-decide-act for active barriers
Result bandNone; three dimensional barrier assessment
Action ruleThe validity test, and critical barriers going into a management plan
Not measuredNumeric effectiveness thresholds

Why the catalogue comes first

When a method screen is written before the rules of the method are recorded, the person using the screen ends up outside the method. If the scale, formula and action rule are on record, the screen derives from that record; if not, it derives from what somebody remembered.

The order

The status field in the module catalogue sets the order: modules that are ready first, then those in development, and roadmap modules last. The bowtie is in the roadmap part of that order, and this page carries the answer until the module arrives.

Manage this in Optifora

Optifora is not a single program but a compliance platform assembled from modules. The catalogue states which module is ready today and which is on the roadmap.

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