Tunnel Boring & Heavy Civil Equipment worked example

Documentation Burden with compliance impact severity of 3 score: a worked example in tunnel boring & heavy civil equipment

This worked example runs the documentation burden numbers for a tougher week than the baseline: compliance impact severity of 3 score instead of the typical 6 score. Estimate documentation burden for tunnel boring and heavy civil equipment using production-ready inputs so teams can rank risks and decide which issue needs containment, controls, or escalation first.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Compliance impact severity: 3 score (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 6)
  • Documentation gap occurrence likelihood: 4 score (held at the documented default)
  • Audit detection difficulty: 3 score (held at the documented default)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Documentation burden risk score = documentation burden severity score × documentation burden occurrence score × documentation burden detection score.
  • Documentation burden risk score works out to 3.35 score at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Documentation burden severity score works out to 3 score at these inputs.
  • Documentation burden occurrence score works out to 4 score at these inputs.
  • Documentation burden detection score works out to 3 score at these inputs.

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 26.37% below the baseline at 3.35 score.
  • Use it when prioritising which documentation controls to tighten ahead of a client audit, regulatory inspection, or contractual milestone. A result at this level usually justifies acting on the stressed input before touching anything else, because every other figure in the table is downstream of it.

Results at a glance

  • Documentation burden risk score: 3.35 score (headline result)
  • Documentation burden severity score: 3 score
  • Documentation burden occurrence score: 4 score
  • Documentation burden detection score: 3 score

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Documentation Burden calculator, set compliance impact severity to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.