Antecedents and consequences of employee safety climate in the small manufacturing enterprises: Translation, validation and application of the generic safety climate questionnaire

• Published in: International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change
• Main Author: Rahlin N.A.; Awang Z.; Afthanorhan A.; Aimran N.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Primrose Hall Publishing Group 2019
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85077130421&partnerID=40&md5=ee298cb702a3f60075bbdef0f8ffb676

Safety climate evaluation is increasingly recognized as an important factor in the Small Medium Enterprise improvement. One of the most frequently used and rigorously validated instruments to measure safety climate is the generic safety climate questionnaire. This study presents the validation of the small manufacturing enterprise version of the generic safety climate questionnaire for use in Malaysian Small Manufacturing Enterprises. The original English version of the generic safety climate questionnaires was translated and adapted to the Bahasa Malaysia. A number of experts have been used to assess the content validity, face validity and criterion validity and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) applied for construct validity. The EFA and its Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin and Bartlett's Test is significant, Total variance explained, indicated items in every construct explained more than 60% of the construct. Orthogonal Variance Rotation Matric found that factor loading every item of respective construct was more than 0.6 which is satisfying good measurement. The results of internal reliability reveal that construct representing test yielded values above than 0.8 shows great internal consistency. Conclusion: The Bahasa Malaysia version of generic employee safety climate reveals good psychometric properties for studying the employee safety climate. Like other studies, this measurement seems to be an acceptable tool to evaluate the antecedent and consequence of employee safety climate in Malaysian small manufacturing enterprise. © 2019 Primrose Hall Publishing Group.