in context to Safety, Health and Environment
1.Incomplete, ambiguous or badly expressed message
2.Absence of clarity of thought
3.Absence of brevity and exactness, unwanted length, words, repetitions etc.
4.Timeliness i.e. the message does not reach in time
5.Lack of attention by receivers
6.Organizational barrier – scalar chain of command, filtering of message, excessive control etc.
7.Status barrier- subordinates has fear to report everything to superior and may hide unpleasant facts.
8.Perceptual barrier- receiver may pay attention only on that part where he has interest or liking and may underrate or filter the message.
9.Information overload- due to overload work, managers may ignore some message, may forget to inform some people or may send incomplete message.
10.Premature evaluation- the receiver evaluates the message before getting complete information i.e he derives premature conclusion.
11.Channel distortion- physical, mechanical or electronic disturbance or mistransmission due to channel distortion.
12.Improper order of information
13.Improper selection of medium
14.Emotional or sentimental message
15.Change of meaning during transmission Unwanted assumption either sender or reciever or both.