Validity and Reliability Study of Safety Climate Scale

Salih Dursun, Oğuz Basol and Belemir Şengül ()
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Salih Dursun: Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, Trabzon, Turkiye
Oğuz Basol: Kırklareli University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, Kırklareli, Turkiye
Belemir Şengül: Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University, Department of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, Ankara, Turkiye

Journal of Economy Culture and Society, 2022, vol. 65, issue 65, 203-216

Abstract: Occupational accidents are accepted as one of the important problems that areas of today’s working life experienced due to significant economic, social, and psychological losses. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the role of safety climate in preventing occupational accidents. A safe climate is the holistic perception shared by employees about the work environment. This research aims to adapt the safety climate scale developed by Hahn and Murphy into the Turkish language. A total of 191 metal industry employees participated in the research. Based on the confirmatory factor analysis results, the scale consists of six items and single factor safety climate scale (Chi-square/df: 2.23; RMSEA: 0.08; NFI: 0.98; NNFI: 0.98; CFI: 0.99; GFI: 0.97; and AGFI: 0.92). The internal consistency of the scale was calculated as 0.857 and item-total correlations ranged between 0.519 and 0.612. As a result, it was concluded that safety climate scale is valid and reliable for Turkish society.

Keywords: Safety climate; validity; reliability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.26650/JECS2021-949898

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