Deriving the factor structure of safety climate scales

Safety Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 327-329

  Shannon, Harry S ^a,b   Norman, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Multi level data; Safety climate

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS; MULTI-LEVEL DATA; SAFETY CLIMATE;

FACE RECOGNITION;

SAFETY FACTOR;

ARTICLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKER; WORKPLACE;

EID: 58249083206     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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