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, vol.26, no.3, pp.450-458, 2020 (SSCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 26 Issue: 3
  • Publication Date: 2020
  • Doi Number: 10.1080/10803548.2018.1442389
  • Journal Name: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS
  • Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, PASCAL, CINAHL, EMBASE, INSPEC, MEDLINE, Civil Engineering Abstracts
  • Page Numbers: pp.450-458
  • Keywords: 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 Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

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.