Case study · 2 pages

The Hidden Risk: When Critical Controls Erode

Your critical controls were in place. Are they still holding?

Identifying high-energy hazards is key. Knowing whether your controls still hold is harder. This brief introduces GapFinder, the patented analytics Insight Risk Systems uses to find where human and organizational factors erode critical controls, with a case study of about 2,800 serious incident and fatality records across four business units of a fertilizer company.

Page 1 of the PDF

  • How GapFinder links each incident to the human and organizational factors behind it.
  • A case study of about 2,800 serious incident and fatality records across four business units of a fertilizer company, where the best of six models reached 95% accuracy.
  • Common risk drivers: competency gaps, and equipment design and integrity issues.
  • Practical implications, from field verification of critical controls to hard-to-see hazards like pinch points, energy isolation and line of fire.

Who should read it?

Leaders responsible for critical control management across several business units or sites.