These are the rules and regulations of a plant environment. These are the policies, procedures, specifications, training systems, stores systems, etc. These are the sources of information that people make decisions on. If these sources of information are flawed, then so will be the decisions made from them. It is just not true.
Management is generally satisfied when a physical root has been resolved.
However, this will temporarily prevent the failure from recurring. Unless the flawed decision making process is corrected, another person will utilize the same flawed information source to make a decision that will result in the same or similar failure happening again. People are more amenable to spending money on tangible items such as a motor, or a coupling rather than on correcting management systems such as modifying a start-up procedure, changing the specifications on a mechanical seal or providing training in proper alignment practices. The truth of the matter is that the physical roots typically cost much more money that the latent roots. The hard part about dealing with latent roots is that they are soft issues that deal with human beings.