Citation

Ghahramani A, Khalkhali HR. Saf. Health Work 2015; 6(2): 97-103.

Affiliation

Inpatient's Safety Research Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran ; Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute)

DOI

10.1016/j.shaw.2015.01.003

PMID

26106508

PMCID

PMC4476196

Abstract

BACKGROUND: This paper describes the development of a scale for measuring safety climate.

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.

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.

CONCLUSION: This study produced a valid and reliable scale for measuring safety climate in manufacturing companies.

Language: en