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The main idea is that how much supervision someone needs isn’t determined just by how long they’ve been on the job. If senior members require the most attention, it suggests experience alone doesn’t automatically reduce the need for oversight. Other factors—such as task complexity, risk involved, changes in rules, or the potential for complacency among seasoned staff—can drive the amount of supervision up or keep it high regardless of experience. So the best interpretation is that the need for supervision may have little relationship to the amount of experience.

This doesn’t support the idea that experience always boosts competence, nor does it imply that strict supervision causes more rule-breaking, nor that new staff are necessarily less familiar with regulations.