title: Development and Validation of a Safety Climate Scale for Manufacturing Industry.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This paper describes the development of a scale for measuring safety climate.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study was conducted in six manufacturing companies in Iran. The scale developed through conducting a literature review about the safety climate and constructing a question pool. The number of items was reduced to 71 after performing a screening process.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The result of content validity analysis showed that 59 items had excellent item content validity index (≥ 0.78) and content validity ratio (> 0.38). The exploratory factor analysis resulted in eight safety climate dimensions. The reliability value for the final 45-item scale was 0.96. The result of confirmatory factor analysis showed that the safety climate model is satisfactory.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study produced a valid and reliable scale for measuring safety climate in manufacturing companies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland ; Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Heath, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.
authors.forename: Abolfazl
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ghahramani
authors.affiliation: Inpatient's Safety Research Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran ; Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.
authors.forename: Hamid R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Khalkhali
keywords: manufacturing; safety climate; safety culture; scale development