HSE Blind Spots · Sample report
Critical controls: leaders and crews see different sites.
Example Gas Co, onshore processing and drilling. Baseline survey, critical controls module, 135 responses across four groups, day and night shift.
At a glance
Leaders rate critical controls as proven in the field. The crew put them a level lower, and contractors two levels lower: a simple system that is patchy in use.
HSE Blind Spots Index
out of 100, all responses
Overall maturity
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ROC Advice maturity scale
Blind spots
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questions where leaders and crew differ by 0.5 or more
Responses
135
14 leaders, 22 supervisors, 99 crew
How leaders see it
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How the crew sees it
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Where each group puts you
Each group's average score placed on the five maturity levels. The further apart the dots, the bigger the blind spot.
Maturity by group
Critical controls module, average score from 1 to 4
Who answered
135 responses, by group
Leaders versus the field
Each line runs from the leaders' average to the crew's average for that question, on a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 4 (strongly agree). The longer the line, the bigger the blind spot.
Heat map
Average score for every question by group. Colour shows the gap between leaders and all crew.
How people answered
The full spread of answers for the two biggest blind spots. Disagree is on the left of the centre line, agree on the right.
Top three blind spots
The biggest gaps between leaders and crew, with what the crew said. These set the agenda for the consultant review.
Leaders are rarely seen checking controls in the field
Leaders scored 3.5; contractors scored 2.0. Crew comments describe leaders on site mainly for audits and incident reviews.
Lever: leaders in the field. A planned field verification routine for leaders, built around the top five critical controls.
Stopping work doesn't feel safe for contractors
Leaders scored 3.8; contractors scored 2.2. Several comments mention schedule pressure and contracts that penalise delays.
Lever: backing for stop-work. Review how stop-work is treated in contractor KPIs and how a recent stop was handled and shared.
Controls are signed off, but not proved
Leaders scored 3.3 that people can show how a control was proved; all crew scored 2.2. Comments describe permits and JSAs completed after the job started.
Levers: clear standards for "working", and less admin. Define what proof looks like for each critical control, and take paperwork out of the way of the check.
What the crew said
Answers to "What would you change first to make the work safer?", grouped into themes. No comments are shown word for word, and no group under five people is reported.
Themes, by number of mentions
97 comments from 135 people
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