6. Our advice
6.1 Reserve the bow tie for analyzing the most critical accidents
The most critical accidents are those which require detailed, well-argued justification of a high level of risk control. In fact, this method proves to be efficient for the analysis of accidents with complex and numerous combinations of causes. There is no point in trying to apply this method to "less complex" accidents.
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The bow-tie is based on the fault tree and event tree methods. It is therefore...
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