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The utility of a workplace injury instrument in prediction of workplace injury
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posted on 2007-01-01, 00:00 authored by Christie Fullarton, Mark StokesMark StokesWorkplace injuries are common and destructive to persons, organisations, and society. Various instruments presently exist that are designed to assess the factors underlying workplace injury. The study reports on the construct and predictive validity of a 46-item instrument, the safety perception survey (SPS), currently used to assess safety climate in industrial organisations throughout Australia. Initially, factor analysis was conducted on the data from a sample of 1238 employees from nine organisations, which indicated a one-factor solution, was the best fit. A structural equation model (SEM) linking injury rates to the safety climate measure for 16 sub-groups of six industrial organisations indicated that the measure contributed just 23% of the variance in injury rates. Interestingly, the results indicated that the number of employees was a better and more significant predictor of injury (R2 = 0.48). It is proposed that the SPS as is would need to be modified significantly from its current form to produce improvements in validity, as in its current form the survey is no more predictive of injury than organisational size. Future research into safety climate measures should incorporate predictive validity analysis on injury rates, as for many organisations; this is a performance outcome measure.
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Accident analysis and preventionVolume
39Issue
1Pagination
28 - 37Publisher
PergamonLocation
Oxford, EnglandPublisher DOI
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0001-4575eISSN
1879-2057Language
engNotes
Available online 6 September 2006.Publication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2006, Elsevier LtdUsage metrics
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safety climateinjury predictionorganisational safetyScience & TechnologySocial SciencesTechnologyLife Sciences & BiomedicineErgonomicsPublic, Environmental & Occupational HealthSocial Sciences, InterdisciplinaryTransportationEngineeringSocial Sciences - Other TopicsMEASURING SAFETY CLIMATEORGANIZATIONAL SAFETYSUPERVISORY PRACTICESINTERVENTION MODELCROSS-VALIDATIONACCIDENTSLEADERSHIPBEHAVIORCULTURE
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