@article{ref1,
title="Safety Climate Cross-Validation, Strength and Prediction of Safety Behaviour",
journal="Safety science",
year="2008",
author="Pousette, Anders and Larsson, S. and Torner, Marianne",
volume="46",
number="3",
pages="398-404",
abstract="The present paper investigates the dimensionality of safety climate, tests a hypothesis of sharedness among members in a social unit as a characteristic of safety climate and tests the predictive validity of safety climate with regard to safety behaviour. The dimensionality of safety climate reported by [Cheyne, A., Cox, S., Oliver, A., Tomas, J.M., 1998. Modelling safety climate in the prediction of levels of safety activity. Work and Stress, 12 (3), 255-271.] was successfully replicated in three different samples (N1 = 242, N2 = 275, N3 = 284) in Swedish construction industry. Support was found for a hypothesis of a second order safety climate factor. A theoretically suggested distinction between safety climate and individual safety attitudes was supported. Safety climate was found to significantly predict self-reported safety behaviour 7 months later. This was true also with previous safety behaviour under control, supporting a causal relationship between safety climate and how workers behave with regard to safety.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0925-7535",
doi="10.1016/j.ssci.2007.06.016",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2007.06.016"
}