Training, Certification & Skills Compliance worked example

Training Gap Score with severity if the skill gap causes a defect or safety event of 15 score: a worked example

Push severity if the skill gap causes a defect or safety event up to 15 score and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. Use it when training gap in training, certification and skills compliance needs a defensible ranking against other training, certification and skills compliance risks for the next review.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Severity if the skill gap causes a defect or safety event: 15 score (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 6)
  • Likelihood the untrained worker actually hits the gap: 4 score (unchanged)
  • Ability to catch the gap before it reaches product: 3 score (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

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

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where severity if the skill gap causes a defect or safety event 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.
  • It multiplies severity, occurrence and detection scores for a single training gap to produce one comparable risk priority number. 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

  • Training gap risk score: 8.15 score (headline result)
  • Training gap severity score: 15 score
  • Training gap occurrence score: 4 score
  • Training gap detection score: 3 score

Run it with your numbers

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

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.