Key Findings from Research: A Reliable Tool Construction Companies Can Use to Self-Assess Their Safety Climate Maturity

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• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Description:
  Decades of research have shown that safety climate is predictive of workplace safety and safety-related outcomes. However, most construction employers lack the experience and resources to be able to apply this research to their operations. The purpose of this project was to develop and validate a new Safety Climate Assessment Tool (S-CAT) that construction companies can easily use to self-assess their level of safety climate maturity and compare their results to others in the industry. The S-CAT includes text-based (vs. numeric) scales respondents use to answer 37 questions about eight safety climate leading indicators. Construction industry subject matter experts were heavily involved in identifying the 8 indicators and writing the descriptor text for the scales. Nine-hundred and eighty-five (985) construction industry stakeholders completed the online S-CAT and provided their most recent recordable incident rate (RIR). The RIR was used to assess the degree to which the S-CAT results were associated with safety outcomes. See abstract: http://bit.ly/2vCCkYI. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Construction Industry Construction Workers Injuries Questionnaires Safety Climate Safety Practices
• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Subseries:
  Key Findings from Research
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20057523
• Citation:
  Key findings from research. Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2019 Oct; :1
• Email:
  lgoldenhar@cpwr.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2020
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Key findings from research
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:155cd20751839bb84854bbc83e8877aaaffc220c3ea996350bd21fe280d932735dcf88bcec4b2c23c928f7ffb7a2ad13ba165aec832e0dcf8714f5cf59ec0317
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/212931/cdc_212931_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 50.40 KB ]