Digging deeper into the shared variance among safety-related climates: the need for a general safety climate measure.

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• Personal Author:
  Andel SA ; Hutchinson DM ; Spector PE
• Description:
  We combined three independent streams of workplace climate research, safety, violence prevention, and civility, to devise a general safety climate scale that explicitly addressed a variety of risks. A confirmatory factor analysis suggested that a higher-order factor may be responsible for the similarity in relationships across these safety-related climate measures with exposure to organizational hazards and resulting employee outcomes. As a result, a concise 10-item measure was developed and validated to assess a possible general safety climate factor. Further analyses suggested that the use of a general safety climate measure did not attenuate the relationships with workplace hazards and employee outcomes. Although different safety-related climate variables may be theoretically distinct, there may not be a measurable benefit in promoting one form of climate over others. Future studies should consider employing the general safety climate measure in place of domain-specific climate measures, unless the domain-specific climate is solely of interest. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Violence Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Organizational Climate; Safety Climate; Violence Prevention Climate; Civility Climate; Workplace Accidents; Workplace Mistreatment Safety Climate; Workplace Violence; Workplace Studies; Workers; Work Environment; Safety; Violence Prevention; Violence; Exposure Levels; Risk Factors; Hazards; Employees;
• ISSN:
  1077-3525
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  38-46
• Volume:
  24
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20064734
• Citation:
  Int J Occup Environ Health 2018 Apr; 24(1-2):38-46
• Contact Point Address:
  Derek M. Hutchinson, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Fowler Avenue, PCD 4118G, 4202Tampa, Florida
• Email:
  dmhutchi@mail.usf.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• Performing Organization:
  Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:527a2c4a7380167b2a5750dd6ef912abb4bee3350dfc5250c85d22685795597a612f6e321a3ab59c57e0ef77f65876f75f78399ea1e8d2d722c1bfeb2053055a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/248865/cdc_248865_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.05 MB ]