Validation of a pre-existing safety climate scale for the Turkish furniture manufacturing industry


AKYÜZ K. C., YILDIRIM İ., Gungor C.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS, cilt.26, sa.3, ss.450-458, 2020 (SSCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 26 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/10803548.2018.1442389
  • Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, PASCAL, CINAHL, EMBASE, INSPEC, MEDLINE, Civil Engineering Abstracts
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.450-458
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: safety climate, safety culture, furniture manufacturing industry, safety management, OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENTS, EMPLOYEE ATTITUDES, MULTILEVEL MODEL, CROSS-VALIDATION, WORK-ENVIRONMENT, CONSTRUCTION, PERFORMANCE, QUESTIONNAIRE, BEHAVIOR, CULTURE
  • Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Understanding the safety climate level is essential to implement a proactive safety program. The objective of this study is to explore the possibility of having a safety climate scale for the Turkish furniture manufacturing industry since there has not been any scale available. The questionnaire recruited 783 subjects. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) tested a pre-existing safety scale's fit to the industry. The CFA indicated that the structures of the model present a non-satisfactory fit with the data (chi(2) = 2033.4,df = 314,p <= 0.001; root mean square error of approximation = 0.08, normed fit index = 0.65, Tucker-Lewis index = 0.65, comparative fit index = 0.69, parsimony goodness-of-fit index = 0.68). The results suggest that a new scale should be developed and validated to measure the safety climate level in the Turkish furniture manufacturing industry. Due to the hierarchical structure of organizations, future studies should consider a multilevel approach in their exploratory factor analyses while developing a new scale.