Abstract
Identifying the restraining forces for opposing a safety initiative and the driving forces for accepting a safety initiative allows strategies to be implemented to maximise the effects of the facilitators, while minimising the effects of the barriers. Previous research conducted in the area of organisational change has identified that organisational, financial and professional factors may act as barriers to, or facilitators for, implementing change programmes (Blake et al., 2006; Weiner et al., 2008). Several studies have been conducted to explore the barriers to and facilitators for implementing safety initiatives.