Understanding the safety climate level is essential to implement a proactive safety program. The objective of this study is to explore the possibility of having a safety climate scale for the Turkish furniture manufacturing industry since there has not been any scale available. The questionnaire recruited 783 subjects. A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) tested a pre-existed safety scale’s fit to the industry. The CFA indicated that the structures of the model present a non-satisfactory fit with the data (χ2 = 2,033.4, df = 314, p ≤ 0.001; root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) = 0.08, normed fit index (NFI) = 0.65, (Tucker–Lewis index) TLI = 0.65, comparative fit index (CFI) = 0.69, parsimony goodness-of-fit index (PGFI) = 0.68). The results suggest that a new scale should be developed and validated to measure the safety climate level in Turkish furniture manufacturing industry. Due to hierarchical structure of organizations, future studies should consider a multilevel approach in their exploratory factor analyses while developing a new scale.
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