background: workplace safety has been a concern of workers and managers for decades. measuring safety climate is crucial in improving safety performance. it is also a method of benchmarking safety perception. objective: to develop and validate a psychometrics scale for measuring nurses' safety climate. methods: literature review, subject matter experts and nurse's judgment were used in items de...

objectives: an effective safety management requires paying attention to human factors. one of the most important methods for achievement to accident prevention is using safety climate or safety culture. moreover, some studies suggest that in most organizations behavior contributes to 86-96% of all injuries. this cross-sectional study was performed on the functional units’ workers of khuzestan p...

safety climate received substantial attention due to its potential for explaining variation in safety-related outcomes. aim of present study was to determine degree of safety climate related to incidents reporting rate and its dimensions among workers’ isfahan steel company. a self-administered anonymous was distributed to 189 workers. the survey included demographic factors, incidents reportin...

Background & Aims of the Study: To prevent lots of work-related accidents in different industries and workplaces, managers should consider macro-factors such as safety culture and its elements like safety climate as the main subject to reflect attitude toward safety . This study aimed at finding the best work shift group in an Iranian process industry by safety attitude/climate...

Objectives: An effective safety management requires paying attention to human factors. One of the most important methods for achievement to accident prevention is using safety climate or safety culture. Moreover, some studies suggest that in most organizations behavior contributes to 86-96% of all injuries. This cross-sectional study was performed on the functional units’ workers of Khuzestan P...

PROBLEM Although there has been considerable interest in safety climate, relatively little attention has been given to the factors that determine safety climate or to testing the hypothesized mediating role of safety climate with respect to safety-related outcomes. METHOD Questionnaire responses were obtained from 2,208 employees of a large national retail chain in 21 different locations. R...

Objectives: Hospitals and clinical centers are concerned about patient safety. Safety climate is a perceived value of safety in an organization that could improve the safety of workers and patients. The present research was conducted to study the safety climate of patients in the hospitals and rehabilitation centers affiliated to the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences.  M...

Background: Researchers have mentioned that safety climate may predict occupational accidents and psychological distresses in the workplace. The present study examined degree of safety climate related to occupational stress and its dimensions among workers’ Isfahan Steel Company. Methods: A self-administered anonymous was distributed to 189 workers. The survey included demographic factors, oc...

Much research has now documented the substantial influence of safety climate on a range of important outcomes in safety critical organizations, but there has been scant attention to the question of what factors might be responsible for positive or negative safety climate. The present paper draws from positive organizational behavior theory to test workplace and individual factors that may affec...