Development and Validation of a Safety Climate Scale for Manufacturing Industry

• Published in: Safety and health at work Vol. 6; no. 2; pp. 97 - 103
• Main Authors: Ghahramani, Abolfazl, Khalkhali, Hamid R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Korea (South) Elsevier B.V 01.06.2015; Elsevier; 한국산업안전보건공단 산업안전보건연구원
• Subjects: manufacturing; Original; safety climate; safety culture; scale development; 예방의학; manufacturing; safety climate; scale development; safety culture
• ISSN: 2093-7911; 2093-7997
• DOI: 10.1016/j.shaw.2015.01.003

This paper describes the development of a scale for measuring safety climate. 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. The result of content validity analysis showed that 59 items had excellent item content validity index (≥ 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. This study produced a valid and reliable scale for measuring safety climate in manufacturing companies.