Potential Barriers to Successful Implementation of Behavioral Safety

Potential Barriers to Successful Implementation of Behavioral Safety 

Although the concepts and principles of behavioral safety are simple and straightforward, implementation issues can be difficult to handle and complex to understand. It only takes one persistent problem to undermine a behavioral safety effort. The following list gives common examples of problems that may be encountered  

Manuele stresses that analysis be performed to identify root-causal factors of at-risk behavior. It should also be made clear that, for systemic causal factors, engineering and work method revisions must be the first considerations (Manuele, 1998, p. 37). 

Failing to get workforce buy-in. This may come about because the management team, without consultation, has imposed the system 

Failing to target behaviors leading to injuries with observation checklists, and not defining critical behaviors with sufficient preci- 

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