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A safety climate measure for construction sites

Nicole Dedobbeleer, +1 more
- 01 Jun 1991 - 
- Vol. 22, Iss: 2, pp 97-103
TLDR
In this article, the authors tested Brown and Holmes' (1986) three-factor safety climate model on construction workers and found that a two-factor model provided an overall better fit.
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This article is published in Journal of Safety Research.The article was published on 1991-06-01. It has received 645 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Construction site safety & Poison control.

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Functional Relations among Constructs in the Same Content Domain at Different Levels of Analysis: A Typology of Composition Models

TL;DR: In this paper, a typology of composition models is proposed to provide a framework for organizing, evaluating, and developing constructs and theories in multilevel research, and five basic forms of composition are described and illustrated.
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The nature of safety culture: a review of theory and research

TL;DR: It is concluded that safety climate might be considered an alternative safety performance indicator and that research should focus on its scientific validity.
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The impact of organizational climate on safety climate and individual behavior

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of general organizational climate on safety climate and safety performance and found that safety climate was related to self-reports of compliance with safety regulations and procedures as well as participation in safety-related activities within the workplace.
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Perceptions of safety at work: A framework for linking safety climate to safety performance, knowledge, and motivation.

TL;DR: The results support conceptualizing safety climate as an antecedent to safety performance in organizations and two studies supported application of the framework to employee perceptions of safety in the workplace.
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Measuring safety climate: identifying the common features☆

TL;DR: The most commonly assessed dimensions relate to management (72% of studies), the safety system (67%) and risk (67%), in addition themes relating to work pressure and competence appear in a third of the studies as mentioned in this paper.
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Safety climate in industrial organizations: theoretical and applied implications.

TL;DR: It was shown that there is an agreement among employees' perceptions regarding safety climate in their company and that the level of this climate is correlated with safety program effectiveness as judged by safety inspectors.
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The use of a factor-analytic procedure for assessing the validity of an employee safety climate model

TL;DR: This paper assesses the validity of a safety climate measure proposed by Zohar on an American sample of production workers, and indicates that the climate structures did not differ between the two groups of interest, subsequently providing a valid and reliable climate measure across the groups.
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