Attention Under Pressure:

Risk Diagnostic for Operational Leader

When human attention is the risk

In heavy industry, a moment of lost focus is rarely just a moment. On a mine site, a construction project, a defence operation or an emergency response, a lapse in attention can mean a serious injury, a costly equipment failure, a missed critical decision, or a breach that damages the trust your organisation has spent years building.
The cost isn't hypothetical - it’s physical, it's financial, and it's reputational, often all at once.
We don't always notice when our attention shifts. Fatigue, routine, and sustained pressure can erode focus gradually, long before it shows up as an incident. This short assessment looks at common experiences and behaviours that can affect attention at work, often without us being aware of them.
There are no right or wrong answers. Choose the response that best reflects what you experience at work.
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Your Attention Risk Profile

Your results identify the patterns most likely to draw your attention away when it matters most, helping you understand where the risk in your day, and your team, actually sits, before it becomes an incident, a cost, or a headline.
Your responses point to tendencies across three areas:

Bodily Distraction (Q1 - Q4)​​​​​​​ 

How much unspent physical energy shows up as fidgeting, movement, or agitation, and how long it takes you to settle once it does. On a site or in an operations room, this restlessness can pull focus away from the task, the equipment, or the person in front of you at exactly the wrong moment.

Action Distraction (Q5 - Q8)
 

How easily your attention is pulled by your phone, by switching tasks, or by reacting instantly to interruptions. In high-consequence environments, the habit of context-switching mid-task is often where small errors and missed steps begin.

 Cognitive Drift (Q9–12)

How often your mind disengages during meetings, briefings, or reading - even while you appear to be present. This is often the hardest pattern to catch, because it doesn't look like distraction from the outside. It's also where critical information is most likely to be missed.
Your profile isn't a diagnosis and it isn't a score to pass or fail, it's a starting point. The goal is to build awareness of your own patterns, and those within your team, so you can put the right safeguards in place before pressure, fatigue, or routine catch you off guard.
Contact Darren Fleming, “That Mindfulness Bloke,” to de-risk your high risk work…
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