Barriers to good health and safety

 1. Complexity of the Workplace: - 

Workplace is a complex area requiring the coordination, corporation and communication between different types of people to carry out different types of activity. Health and Safety must meet the everchanging demands of the workplace. Finding a solution to a problem requires intensive background research, knowledge and experience. Because a solution to a problem may create an another problem or could have consequences for a different activity.

2. Conflicting or Competing demands: - 

Conflicting or competing demands is an another barrier to health and safety. For example the need to meet supply and demand. The need to supply a product or a service at an appropriate speed so as to make profit and also the need to carry out the work safely meeting all health and safety requirements. These are two different demands that contradicts with each other. 

Another example is the need to meet the requirements of many different standards (health and safety standards, quality standards, environmental standards etc.).

3. Behavioural issues: - 

Maintaining and following a good health and safety standard requires people in the organization to follow the health and safety rules and regulations that are in place. But people does not always behave as they are told to do so. They make mistakes, errors (both intentional and unintentional) which could create unsafe act/ conditions that could eventually lead to an accident or incident. 

So behavioural issues of people are an another barrier to good health and safety in the workplace.