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Validation of the group nuclear safety climate questionnaire.
Inés TomásFrancisco Javier Gracia LerinM. Felisa Latorre NavarroJosé María Peiró Sillasubject
EngineeringSafety ManagementScale (ratio)Applied psychologyPoison controlSample (statistics)Occupational safety and healthUser-Computer InterfaceEconomic indicatorSocial DesirabilitySurveys and QuestionnairesPhotographyHumansPoisson DistributionSafety Risk Reliability and QualityReliability (statistics)Occupational Healthbusiness.industryItem analysisComputational BiologyReliability engineeringMotor VehiclesGroup StructureNuclear Power PlantsOrganizational safetyDiffusion of InnovationbusinessAlgorithmsdescription
Abstract Introduction Group safety climate is a leading indicator of safety performance in high reliability organizations. Zohar and Luria (2005) developed a Group Safety Climate scale (ZGSC) and found it to have a single factor. Method The ZGSC scale was used as a basis in this study with the researchers rewording almost half of the items on this scale, changing the referents from the leader to the group, and trying to validate a two-factor scale. The sample was composed of 566 employees in 50 groups from a Spanish nuclear power plant. Item analysis, reliability, correlations, aggregation indexes and CFA were performed. Results Results revealed that the construct was shared by each unit, and our reworded Group Safety Climate (GSC) scale showed a one-factor structure and correlated to organizational safety climate, formalized procedures, safety behavior, and time pressure. “Impact on Industry This validation of the one-factor structure of the Zohar and Luria (2005) scale could strengthen and spread this scale and measure group safety climate more effectively.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-09-01 | Journal of safety research |