Pattern recognition for process safety
Ask the same five questions about one critical control at four scales: the task, the team, the site and the organization. Then look at what repeats. When the same weakness shows up at every scale, you have found the pattern that will decide the next incident.
A fractal is a shape that looks the same however far you zoom in or out. I use the word as an analogy. In the fatality files I have read, the gap in the task (a step skipped under time pressure) was usually a smaller copy of the gap in the organization (a budget decision made under the same pressure). Nobody saw it because each scale was reviewed by different people with different forms. This tool puts all four scales on one page.
What this is. A structured review aid. It organizes your own answers and counts where they repeat. It does not know your plant, it does not predict incidents, and it is not a substitute for a process hazard analysis, a bow-tie or a competent engineer.
The examples are anonymized and illustrative, assembled from patterns I have seen across many sites. None describes a single real company or event.
Answer in a sentence or two, then pick the tag that best describes the type of answer. The tags are what the tool compares, so choose the one that is most true, and leave a cell blank if you do not know (the summary treats blanks as information too).
Each cell shows the tag you chose. Color shows how many scales share that tag on the same question. On a phone, swipe the table sideways to see all four scales.