Abstract
This study aims to develop and validate a safety climate scale for United Arab Emirates (UAE) oil and gas industries to enhance the process safety performance. This study was performed at the Abu Dhabi Oil National Company (ADNOC) in the UAE. Principal component analysis was used to analyze the response data, resulting in the identification of five safety climate dimensions. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was then performed to test the relationships among the constructs of safety climate dimensions as conceptualized in a measurement model. Finally, a structural model was developed to measure the significance of these five safety climate dimensions in the oil and gas industries in the UAE. This paper confirms the importance of measuring and incorporating multiple factors comprehensively to obtain a complete picture of the implementation and perceptions of safety climate in oil and gas companies in the UAE. It also provides a reliable and validated instrument and first- and second-order models for measuring the safety climate dimensions, which affect the performance of safety in general, and process safety, which is specifically useful for informing practitioner regarding focus area to enhance safety performance.
Highlights
Safety performance is indicated by the safety climate
The aim of this paper is to investigate and validate the dominant safety climate dimensions in oil and gas industries using principal component analysis (PCA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA)
Focusing on one construct of safety climate factors even at the item level disregards the potential benefits that are accruable from taking actions that would motivate the organizational stakeholders in all the five construct areas. These findings demonstrate that oil and gas organizations must adhere to coherent and comprehensive approaches for developing more favorable perceptions toward safety climate in the oil and gas industry
Summary
Safety performance is indicated by the safety climate. Typically, safety performance can be applied in the prediction of safety results such as occupational injuries or recommended safety behaviors (Meliá et al 2008, Olsen 2010; Bernardi 2019).It is essential to apply a validated scale for measuring safety levels accompanied by supporting data (Seo et al 2004, Yeung and Chan 2012). Safety performance is indicated by the safety climate. Safety performance can be applied in the prediction of safety results such as occupational injuries or recommended safety behaviors (Meliá et al 2008, Olsen 2010; Bernardi 2019). It is essential to apply a validated scale for measuring safety levels accompanied by supporting data (Seo et al 2004, Yeung and Chan 2012). To realize practical applications of a validity test accompanied by data, organizations have evaluated their safety levels using this verified test. It is evident that the process of assessing reliability is limited to measurement errors of the scale applied (Yeung and Chan 2012)
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