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Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute, Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (산업안전보건연구원)
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Development and Validation of a Safety Climate Scale for Manufacturing Industry

  • Ghahramani, Abolfazl (Department of Psychology, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki) ;
  • Khalkhali, Hamid R. (Inpatient's Safety Research Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences)
  • Received : 2014.06.09
  • Accepted : 2015.01.28
  • Published : 2015.06.30
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Abstract

Background: This paper describes the development of a scale for measuring safety climate. Methods: This study was conducted in six manufacturing companies in Iran. The scale developed through conducting a literature review about the safety climate and constructing a question pool. The number of items was reduced to 71 after performing a screening process. Results: The result of content validity analysis showed that 59 items had excellent item content validity index (${\geq}0.78$) and content validity ratio (> 0.38). The exploratory factor analysis resulted in eight safety climate dimensions. The reliability value for the final 45-item scale was 0.96. The result of confirmatory factor analysis showed that the safety climate model is satisfactory. Conclusion: This study produced a valid and reliable scale for measuring safety climate in manufacturing companies.

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