Given the complexity of the contemporary business environment and considering the limitations of human rationality, the proposed studies of the organizational behavior theory and the vision based in attention theory, this study aims to diagnose the level of attention to critical issues for corporate security and verify and the perception of the risk level of proposed situations, through research applied to professionals who perform a gratified position in an organization in the oil and gas sector. Therefore, based on studies developed on attention and risk perception, a quantitative descriptive research was carried out, answered voluntarily by 409 professionals occupying a gratified position in different areas on the company: business and the corporate, from different organizational levels, education level, time in the organization and age. The results show that topics related to the topics of products and people are the subjects with the greatest engagement in attracting attention, analyzing the related risks and on which the professionals participating in this research invest more time and the search for more information/knowledge.