Development and Validation of a Safety Climate Scale for Manufacturing Industry.
10.1016/j.shaw.2015.01.003
- Author:
Abolfazl GHAHRAMANI
1
;
Hamid R KHALKHALI
Author Information
1. Department of Psychology, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. Abolfazl.Ghahramani@helsinki.fi
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
manufacturing;
safety climate;
safety culture;
scale development
- MeSH:
Climate*;
Iran;
Mass Screening
- From:Safety and Health at Work
2015;6(2):97-103
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
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 (> or = 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.
