Citation

Navarro MF, Gracia Lerín FJ, Tomás I, Peiró Silla JM. J. Saf. Res. 2013; 46: 21-30.

Affiliation

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Río Hondo, 1 (Ciudad de México), México. Electronic address: M.Felisa.Latorre@gmail.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, U.S. National Safety Council, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jsr.2013.03.005

PMID

23932682

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Group safety climate is a leading indicator of safety performance in high reliability organizations. Zohar and Luria (2005) developed a Group Safety Climate scale (ZGSC) and found it to have a single factor. METHOD: The ZGSC scale was used as a basis in this study with the researchers rewording almost half of the items on this scale, changing the referents from the leader to the group, and trying to validate a two-factor scale. The sample was composed of 566 employees in 50 groups from a Spanish nuclear power plant. Item analysis, reliability, correlations, aggregation indexes and CFA were performed. RESULTS: Results revealed that the construct was shared by each unit, and our reworded Group Safety Climate (GSC) scale showed a one-factor structure and correlated to organizational safety climate, formalized procedures, safety behavior, and time pressure. " IMPACT ON INDUSTRY: This validation of the one-factor structure of the Zohar and Luria (2005) scale could strengthen and spread this scale and measure group safety climate more effectively.

Language: en