Insights Into Your Safety Culture

In order for a consequence like punishment to be effective, we must come in contact with the consequence. Therefore, you have to do the at-risk behavior and it has to be followed with punishment. When you are threatening, you are trying to stop the at-risk behavior before it starts. The problem is that these people have not had experience with the punishing consequence. So you are left making idle threats that can be a dysfunctional practice that kills your safety culture.