ADAPTATION OF THE SAFETY PERFORMANCE SCALE: THE STUDY OF VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY

Abstract

The improved safety climate is believed to be an essential element for accident prevention. Therefore, the validity and reliability research of a scale to evaluate the safety climate is a crucial tool for establishing the safety environment in the workplace. The purpose of the research is to analyze the Turkish adaptation, validity and reliability of the short safety climate scale created by Hahn and Murphy (2008). The questionnaire was translated into Turkish based on back translation. The 6-item scale was analyzed with the data collected from the personnel (N=400) working in the tourism sector. In data analysis, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyzes were performed to examine for validity; for determining the reliability of the scale, the Cronbach Alpha coefficient was calculated and the item-total correlation coefficients were examined. The analyzes were carried out using SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 25.0 package programs. To the analysis results, the safety climate scale; Unlike the original scale created by Hahn and Murphy (2008), it consisted of 5 items and a single dimension in the tourism sector sample. The results of the research are that the scale that can be used by occupational health professionals and researchers to evaluate employees' perceptions of safety culture and practices in the workplace, as well as to guide risk management efforts in organizations, is valid and reliable.