Mining Vehicle & Underground Equipment worked example

Safety Compliance Burden with severity if the safety control fails or lapses of 15 score: a worked example

What does the result look like when severity if the safety control fails or lapses reaches 15 score? The full calculation is worked below with real intermediate numbers. Use it when safety compliance burden in mining vehicle and underground equipment needs a defensible ranking against other mining vehicle and underground equipment risks for the next review.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Severity if the safety control fails or lapses: 15 score (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 6)
  • Likelihood the compliance gap occurs: 4 score (unchanged)
  • Chance the gap is detected before audit or incident: 3 score (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Safety compliance burden risk score = safety compliance burden severity score × safety compliance burden occurrence score × safety compliance burden detection score) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 8.15 score for safety compliance burden risk score, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 15 score for safety compliance burden severity score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 4 score for safety compliance burden occurrence score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 3 score for safety compliance burden detection score.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where severity if the safety control fails or lapses sits at 6 score and the headline result is 4.55 score, this scenario comes in 79.12% above the baseline at 8.15 score.
  • A figure at this level is achievable when severity if the safety control fails or lapses is genuinely sustained, not just peaked for a shift. It ranks relative burden, not legal exposure. A regulatory non-conformance can be mandatory to fix regardless of a low score, so legal and severity floors override the math.

Results at a glance

  • Safety compliance burden risk score: 8.15 score (headline result)
  • Safety compliance burden severity score: 15 score
  • Safety compliance burden occurrence score: 4 score
  • Safety compliance burden detection score: 3 score

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Safety Compliance Burden calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.