Rory Smith is a Visiting Professor in Lift Technology at the University of Northampton and a Consultant to Peters Research Ltd. He has over 50 years of lift industry experience and worked for ThyssenKrupp Elevator for the past 25 years in various regions including the Americas, Asia Pacific, and Southern Europe and the Middle East .
He was involved in TK Elevator’s Internet of Things. Rory's areas of special interest are Robotics, Machine Learning, High-Rise Design, Traffic Analysis, Dispatching Algorithms and Ride Quality. Numerous patents have been awarded for his work.
Risk analysis in the lift and escalator Industry is usually conducted following the guidelines of ISO 14798: 2009. The method defined in this standard works well.
Bowtie diagrams are a graphic representation of a hazard and the mitigations that either reduce the probability of occurrence of a hazardous event or reduce the harm caused by the event.
Bowties help the team who is conducting a risk assessment by allowing them to visualise the issues involved. Bowties also help the personnel who are at risk to better understand the hazard and how they can reduce their risks. Bowties and how to employ them are then explained.
Bowtie diagrams, a tool to improve risk analysis.
Dr Rory Smith.
University of Northampton, USA.