Interface Risk safeguards employees and organisations by strengthening the points of interaction between people, systems, and environments — reducing harm where traditional safety controls cannot see.
The methodology focuses on transitions, handovers, overlapping responsibilities, and normal work under pressure — areas where risk accumulates without any single rule being broken.
Interface Risk integrates into existing onboarding, safety, compliance, and regulatory systems without disruption or replacement.
Interface Risk adds a dedicated safeguarding layer to onboarding by immersing individuals in real operational environments before exposure occurs.
Using safe, real-world 360° virtual reality, workers experience how environments, systems, and people interact under realistic conditions — without risk of harm.
This creates familiarity, situational awareness, and informed decision-making before entering live operations.
The Interface Risk method uses real 360° footage captured in operational environments.
This is not simulation-based training.
Workers are immersed in the actual conditions they will encounter — spatial layout, proximity, interfaces, and environmental factors — while remaining completely safe.
This provides the closest possible experience to real work without exposure to real risk.
The Octopus Model structures immersive onboarding content around universal interface domains present in all working environments.
Each arm represents a category of interaction between people, systems, organisations, environments, and time.
This allows a single, standardised onboarding structure to be applied across industries, government bodies, and military operations.
The environments differ.
The interfaces remain consistent.
Interface Risk does not assign blame for outcomes.
Instead, it builds awareness of how decisions, assumptions, and actions influence conditions across systems and environments.
By making cause and effect visible at interfaces, individuals develop responsibility through understanding — not punishment.
Interface Risk is designed to align with internationally recognised management system standards.
The method supports competence, awareness, and risk identification requirements within existing onboarding, safety, and governance frameworks.
Implementation does not replace current systems — it strengthens them at the point where individuals first enter the working environment.