Measurement equivalence of a safety climate measure among Hispanic and White Non-Hispanic construction workers

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• Personal Author:
  Chen PY ; Cigularov KP ; Gittleman, Janie ; Haile E ; Lancaster PG
• 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 researchers continue to expose ethnic disparities in safety and health outcomes: is it possible that Hispanic and non- Hispanic construction workers also respond differently to a standard safety climate survey instrument? Researchers analyzed safety climate surveys submitted by 4,182 workers employed in 14 different construction trades, comparing the responses of three groups: Hispanic workers who completed the survey in Spanish, Hispanic workers who completed the survey in English, and non-Hispanic whites who completed the survey in English. They found that responses to most questions on the survey were equivalent among the three groups, but noted some exceptions deserving of further study. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Safety Management Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace
• Keywords:
  Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Data-processing Health-surveys Occupational-safety-programs Qualitative-analysis Questionnaires Racial-factors 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:
  Colorado ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047219
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2014 Jun; :1
• Email:
  peter.chen@unisa.edu.au
• 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 of a safety climate measure among Hispanic and White Non-Hispanic construction workers
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7eebbd8b735e4a907962a6079900859a58280a8ad68d5107203ee658b51a7d8cf72ef1a871a9f3dd40ef4e7ac1f44b30d6c01fb6dff04e1f355074a092465396
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202373/cdc_202373_DS1.pdf
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