ABSTRACT
This actual scenario, on the Portuguese furniture industries, shows the need that enterprises have to analyse their safety state, as well as, the safety progress. With this purpose, quantitative measures can be used, as the accident rates (Cameron & Raman, 2005). However, in some cases, in particular for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), the data needed are not available or, in other cases, the number of accidents is underreported, not reflecting the actual safety condition. Therefore, the use of other measures is important. In this context, safety climate have been referred as a relevant measure to monitor safety conditions (Flin et al., 2000), overcoming some of the limitations of the traditional safety measures. Also Arezes & Miguel (2005) referred that workers’ opinions about the company’s safety climate play an important role as a safety predictor.
