TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Development and validation of a safety climate scale for manufacturing industry
JO  - Safety and health at work
A1  - Ghahramani, Abolfazl
A1  - Khalkhali, Hamid R.
SP  - 97
EP  - 103
VL  - 6
IS  - 2
N2  - BACKGROUND: This paper describes the development of a scale for measuring safety climate. <br><br>METHODS: 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. <br><br>RESULTS: 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. <br><br>CONCLUSION: This study produced a valid and reliable scale for measuring safety climate in manufacturing companies.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2093-7911
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2015.01.003
ID  - ref1
ER  -