Citation

Akyuz KC, Yildirim I, Gungor C. Int. J. Occup. Safety Ergonomics 2018; ePub(ePub): 1-9.

Affiliation

Department of Forest Industrial Engineering , Izmir Katip Celebi University , Izmir , Turkey.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Publisher Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/10803548.2018.1442389

PMID

29451851

Abstract

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.

Language: en

Keywords

Safety climate; furniture manufacturing industry; safety culture; safety management