Tunnel Boring & Heavy Civil Equipment worked example

Documentation Burden with compliance impact severity of 15 score: a worked example in tunnel boring & heavy civil equipment

This scenario runs the documentation burden calculation on the strong side: compliance impact severity of 15 score, with every other input held at its documented default. Use it when documentation burden in tunnel boring and heavy civil equipment needs a defensible ranking against other tunnel boring and heavy civil equipment risks for the next review.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Compliance impact severity: 15 score (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 6)
  • Documentation gap occurrence likelihood: 4 score (unchanged)
  • Audit detection difficulty: 3 score (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

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

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where compliance impact severity 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.
  • Use it when prioritising which documentation controls to tighten ahead of a client audit, regulatory inspection, or contractual milestone. Treat this as a target state: the delta against the baseline quantifies what the improvement is worth before you commit to chasing it.

Results at a glance

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

Run it with your numbers

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

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.