Measurement equivalence and mean comparisons of a safety climate measure across construction trades

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• Personal Author:
  Adams S ; Chen PY ; Cigularov KP ; Gittleman JL ; Haile E
• Description:
  The use of safety climate measures for needs assessment and interventions has become increasingly popular. Typically, safety climate scores are determined by asking workers to evaluate statements like "the general contractor's safety personnel step in to stop unsafe operations," or "my foreman thinks that safety is more important than productivity." But workers in different trades encounter very different levels of risk and characteristic hazards: do they all respond in the same way to a standard safety climate survey instrument? Thus, it is important to ensure that respondents use similar frames of reference while completing a safety climate measure. Researchers analyzed safety climate surveys submitted by 4,725 workers employed in 10 different construction trades on a single large construction project in Las Vegas, Nevada. They found that although the different trades reported on average significantly different levels of safety climate, they used the same frame of reference when responding to the measure. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace
• Keywords:
  Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Health-surveys Occupational-safety-programs Qualitative-analysis Questionnaires Safety-climate Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-practices Safety-programs Safety-research Work-environment Work-practices Workers

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• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047218
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2014 Jun; :1
• Email:
  kcigular@odu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Measurement equivalence and mean comparisons of a safety climate measure across construction trades
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202372/cdc_202372_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 44.26 KB ]