When Risk Systems Become the Problem

Serious incidents still happen even with robust safety programs in place. The problem isn’t data volume. It’s visibility into what matters most.

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Integration Paralysis

  • Multiple systems that don’t talk to each other: EHS, process safety, maintenance, HR, production, and finance all live in different silos.
  • Data silos across departments and business units mean no one has a complete view of operational risk.
  • Critical patterns are buried in noise, making it hard to see where serious incidents and fatalities are most likely to occur.

Implementation Gaps

  • Policies and management systems that look good on paper, but don’t reflect the realities of field operations.
  • Compliance fatigue from “checking boxes” to satisfy audits, rather than preventing serious incidents and fatalities (SIFs).
  • A growing gap between what you measure and what prevents incidents, leaving critical controls under-verified or misunderstood.

Decision Overload

  • Too many indicators and dashboards, but unclear priorities and inconsistent leading indicators across sites.
  • Boards and regulators demanding real-time visibility, while your teams struggle to extract meaning from disconnected metrics.
  • Limited resources that must be directed toward the highest-risk activities, without a clear, trusted way to rank them.

Why Risk Management is Good for Business.

Risk-Based Prioritization Built for Implementation

Our approach combines multi-factor analysis, system integration, and practical implementation support so you can focus on what will prevent serious incidents and fatalities.

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DECLUTTER

Step 1: Find the Signal in the Noise

We start with a multi-factor analysis of your existing data—inspections, incidents, near misses, work observations, production data, asset integrity records, and more. Instead of adding yet another tool, we use your current systems and perform a rigorous gap analysis between your policies and what happens in practice.

We identify which indicators are truly predictive of serious incidents and SIF precursors, and which ones are just noise. The outcome is a prioritized set of leading indicators and critical controls that align with your operational reality.

INTEGRATE

Step 2: One View of Risk Across Your Operation

Next, we integrate your existing systems to create a unified, real-time view of operational risk. Using data fusion, we connect complementary sources—process safety and EHS systems, asset and maintenance data, contractor records, and human performance information.

We then design real-time monitoring dashboards that show leading indicators at the workgroup level and roll them up into enterprise-level views for executives, boards, and regulators. This gives everyone, from supervisors to CROs, consistent, risk-based decision support.

Technology note: Our patented machine learning approach analyzes your data on-site. Your data never leaves your environment No cloud uploads, no third-party access, and a transparent methodology that regulators and auditors can understand and trust.

IMPLEMENT

Step 3: Turn Insights into Action

Insight without implementation doesn’t move the needle. We work with your leaders, front-line supervisors, and safety professionals to design tailored interventions for specific workgroups and critical tasks.

We build leading indicators that roll up from workgroup to corporate level, aligned with your serious incident and fatality (SIF) risks and critical controls. We also provide decision support for compliance, audit planning, resource allocation, and technology deployment, so improvements are embedded in daily operations, not just in reports.

Visualizing SIF Risk with Bowties.

Serving Organizations Where Risk Is Business-Critical

We specialize in high-hazard, highly regulated environments where operational risk, serious incidents, and public trust are front and center.

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Energy & Resources

We help oil & gas, petrochemical, mining, utilities, and emerging energy companies implement risk-based prioritization across complex operations and supply chains.

Our work spans de-risking new technologies such as hydrogen and combined heat & power, integrating process safety and operational risk management, and implementing robust personnel safety management systems (PSMS).

Case study: How we helped a major oil sands operator declutter their safety management system, focus on critical controls, and improve safety performance while reducing compliance burden.

Government Agencies & Regulators

Regulators and government agencies face increasing expectations for risk-based oversight, transparency, and real-time visibility into regulated entities. We support the development and implementation of risk-based regulatory frameworks and tools that are defensible, practical, and data-driven.

We enable real-time asset and performance monitoring across regulated entities, build key risk indicator dashboards for compliance oversight, and support transparent scenario analysis for policy decisions and public communications.

Financial Services & Insurers

Insurers, investors, and lenders need to understand operational risk across portfolios, especially in high-hazard sectors. We provide quantitative risk assessment and operational risk visualization that reveal the maturity and effectiveness of a company’s safety and risk management systems.

Our analyses support due diligence, pricing, and portfolio management decisions by quantifying risk exposure and demonstrating where risk-based prioritization is improving outcomes. Companies with mature risk management systems can be valued significantly higher, and we help you identify and validate that maturity.

Infrastructure & Construction

For infrastructure owners, EPCs, and construction firms, serious incident and fatality prevention is a daily focus. We specialize in SIF precursor analysis and critical control verification across multi-site, multi-contractor operations.

We support technology implementation and field testing, using real-time monitoring and leading indicators to ensure that new systems, procedures, and technologies actually reduce risk on the ground, not just on paper.

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CONTACT US.

Contact Us

Dr. Lianne Lefsrud
780-951-3455
lianne.lefsrud@insightrisksystems.com

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