Organizations face numerous barriers preventing them from attaining safety performance excellence. One of the barriers is the fact that senior managers aren't demanding excellence and therefore are not committed to or involved in the safety management process. As a result of this, the organizations managers and supervisors don't accept responsibility for worker and workplace safety and are not held accountable for performance. One of the largest barriers is that rules aren't being rigidly or consistently enforced. Those same organizations do not communicate consequences for violating rules and procedures. Consequently, employees challenge compliance regularly. In most organizations, managers, supervisors, and employees are not involved in constant hazard recognition and remediation. Employee risk-taking is condoned/encouraged and employees aren't held personally responsible for their own performance. Another barrier is that the root causes of hazards and accidents are rarely identified and addressed. Finally, goals, objectives, and accountability measures are ineffective or non-existent, and poor organizational safety performance is tolerated. In these organizations, work output, quality and cost issues strongly overshadow safety performance. However, the biggest hurdle for most organizations is finding a way to fix all of those things that is successful, sustainable, and achievable.
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