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Citation

Flin RH., Mearns KJ, O'Connor P, Bryden R. Safety Sci. 2000; 34(1-3): 177-192.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

In UK industry, particularly in the energy sector, there has been a movement away from 'lagging' measures of safety based on retrospective data, such as lost time accidents and incidents, towards 'leading' or predictive assessments of the safety climate of the organisation or worksite. A number of different instruments have been developed by industrial psychologists for this purpose, resulting in a proliferation of scales with distinct developmental histories. Reviewing the methods and results from a sample of industrial surveys, the thematic basis of 18 scales used to assess safety climate is examined. This suggests that the most typically assessed dimensions relate to management (72% of studies), the safety system (67%), and risk (67%), in addition themes relating to work pressure and competence appear in a third of the studies.

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