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INTRODUCTION: Group safety climate is a leading indicator of safety performance in high reliability organizations. Zohar and Luria (2005) developed a Group Safety Climate scale (ZGSC) and found it to have a single factor. METHOD: The ZGSC scale was used as a basis in this study with the researchers rewording almost half of the items on this scale, changing the referents from the leader to the group, and trying to validate a two-factor scale. The sample was composed of 566 employees in 50 groups from a Spanish nuclear power plant. Item analysis, reliability, correlations, aggregation indexes and CFA were performed. RESULTS: Results revealed that the construct was shared by each unit, and our reworded Group Safety Climate (GSC) scale showed a one-factor structure and correlated to organizational safety climate, formalized procedures, safety behavior, and time pressure. IMPACT ON INDUSTRY: This validation of the one-factor structure of the Zohar and Luria (2005) scale could strengthen and spread this scale and measure group safety climate more effectively.
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Group Structure , Motor Vehicles , Nuclear Power Plants , Safety Management , Surveys and Questionnaires/standards , Algorithms , Computational Biology , Diffusion of Innovation , Humans , Occupational Health , Photography/instrumentation , Poisson Distribution , Social Desirability , User-Computer InterfaceABSTRACT
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