ABSTRACT
Organizational safety cognition measures – mainly perceptions of and attitudes towards safety, commonly take the form of safety climate self-completion surveys, of which there are many examples (e.g., Cheyne et al., 1998; Cooper, & Phillips, 1994; Cox & Cox, 1991; Cox et al., 1998; Coyle et al., 1995; Davies et al., 2001; Dedobbeleer, & Béland, 1991; Donald & Canter, 1994; Flin et al., 2000; Glendon & Litherland, 2001; Janssens et al., 1995; Niskanen, 1994; Silva et al., 2004; Varonen, & Mattila, 2000; Williamson et al., 1997; Zohar, 1980). For reviews, see Cooper and Phillips (2004), Glendon et al. (2006), Guldenmund (2000), and Seo et al. (2004). These measures typically find between two and seven separate factors or safety climate scales. For example, Griffin and Neal (2000) identified five first-order factors, which in turn loaded onto a common higherorder factor, relating to perceptions of safety climate. Their first-order factors were: ‘Management values’, ‘Safety communication’, ‘Safety practices’, ‘Safety training’, and ‘Safety equipment’.
