Your company MTech plc (Medical Technologies plc), based in the South West of the UK (10 miles South of Bristol), manufactures, markets, and sells sophisticated cancer screening instruments (CSI). MTech has a world-wide market for the CSI and manufactures between 500 and 600 sets per year. It also has a thriving business in calibration and repair of CSIs. A major sub- assembly of the CSI is a scanner unit (weighing 25kg with dimensions 1m x 1.5m x 0.75m and costs £15,000) that contains radio-active components and is purchased from a company in Germany (ScannerTech) which is located in a small town 5 kilometres north of Leipzig. The repair and calibration of the CSI always involves the fitting of a new scanner with MTech plc providing a guaranteed turnaround time of 10 days.
The managing director (MD) has asked you to undertake a risk assessment using the Bow-Tie method to ensure that the threats and risks are identified and preventative or mitigations measures are put in place. Brexit is a key driver for this assessment.
The MD has also asked if you can look at ways to add a quantitative method to the Bow-Tie in order to provide figures for an overall risk assessment. You are not expected to implement this extension to the Bow-Tie. See below.
