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The development of a brief and practical work safety climate measure
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NSTL
Elsevier
Background: Safety climate represents employees' shared perceptions of the value an organisation places on safety. Frequently safety climate measures are lengthy to comprehensively assess critical work safety factors, which makes their completion time consuming, particularly when used in conjunction with other work or performance measures. Consequently, organisations only employ such measures during safety crises, compromising their usefulness as a leading work safety indicator for identifying and remediating emerging safety issues before they become critical. Objective: This study used statistical and practical methodological procedures to develop a brief safety climate measure for the regular monitoring and remediation of safety issues. Method: An existing comprehensive and valid work safety climate measure (Nordic Occupational Safety Climate Questionnaire [NOSACQ-50]; Kines et al., 2011), was administered to disability support workers (N = 366) and hospitality employees (N = 111). Appropriate statistical procedures and practical usefulness measures including expert opinions of work health and safety researchers (N = 5) and practitioners (N = 14), correlations with physical and mental health measures, and item readability contributed to the selection of the most reliable and practically useful items for the brief measure. Results: Utilising statistical and practical usefulness methods, a brief 24-item safety climate questionnaire was developed. Conclusion: Study results support the usefulness of this brief 24-item work safety climate measure for both practice and research purposes. The study also demonstrated a procedurally sound and practically efficient item reduction method that considers both statistical findings and methods that enhance the practical usefulness of the measure in applied environments.
NOSACQSafety assessmentLeading safety indicator
D. Summers、A. Sarris、J. Harries、N. Kirby
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University of Adelaide Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
NSTL
Elsevier
