Safety & Workforce worked example

Skill Gap Score with skill criticality and severity of a gap of 20 score: a worked example

Push skill criticality and severity of a gap up to 20 score and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. Use it when skill gap in safety and workforce needs a defensible ranking against other safety and workforce risks for the next review.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Skill criticality / severity of a gap (1-10): 20 score (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 8)
  • How widespread the gap is across the crew (1-10): 6 score (unchanged)
  • How easily the gap is caught before it causes errors (1-10): 7 score (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Weighted score = severity × 0.40 + occurrence × 0.35 + detection × 0.25) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 11.85 score for skill gap risk score, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 20 score for skill gap severity score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 6 score for skill gap occurrence score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 7 score for skill gap detection score.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where skill criticality and severity of a gap sits at 8 score and the headline result is 7.05 score, this scenario comes in 68.09% above the baseline at 11.85 score.
  • It computes a weighted risk score for a single workforce skill gap by blending its severity (0.40), how widely it occurs across operators (0.35), and how detectable it is before damage (0.25). The value of this scenario is the size of the gap it exposes: that gap, priced out over a year, is the budget you can justify spending to close it.

Results at a glance

  • Skill gap risk score: 11.85 score (headline result)
  • Skill gap severity score: 20 score
  • Skill gap occurrence score: 6 score
  • Skill gap detection score: 7 score

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Skill Gap Score calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.