Citation

Singh V, Verma A. Int. J. Occup. Safety Ergonomics 2018; ePub(ePub): 1-26.

Affiliation

Department of Mechanical Engineering , Abhilashi University Chailchowk , Mandi , H.P. , India , 175028.

Copyright

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

DOI

10.1080/10803548.2018.1476203

PMID

29856289

Abstract

This paper reviews 60 studies that examined safety climates related to manufacturing. This study identifies several conceptual and methodological limitations associated with developing safety climate measurements, such as the lack of a rigorous validation process, problematic sample sizes, and composition. Within the reviewed studies, several factors were used to measure safety climate. Management's commitment to safety and associated training and procedures were the most common, followed by workers' attitudes and commitment. The most frequently used factors should reflect that prevention of work-related accidents and injuries depends on both the organisation's and workers' actions. Most studies made no attempt to establish the discriminate and convergent validities of the tools used. In the future, we recommend that rather than construct more questionnaires, researchers should correlate safety climate constructs with existing safety performance metrics to establish convergent and discriminate validities. The accident rate in manufacturing industries is sufficient to measure safety performance and assess the discriminate validity of these tools.

Language: en

Keywords

emergent themes; manufacturing industry; safety climate; safety culture; validity