Dimensions Of Safety Climate Research Articles

The Relationship Between Occupational Accidents and Near-Miss Accidents and Occupational Safety Climate in a Metal Industry Workplace

Objective: The aim of the research is to determine the relationship between occupational safety climate and occupational accidents and near-miss accidents in a workplace producing in the metal industry. Material and methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted between 15 July and 30 August 2024 in an enterprise engaged in production in the metal sector in Balikesir province with a research group of 387 people. The dependent variables of the study are occupational accidents and near misses. Results: During their working lives, 37.2% of the participants had a near-miss accident and 34.1% had a work-related accident. The results of the multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that those who had a near-miss accident had low scores in the dimensions of Management safety priority, commitment and competence (OR: 0.56 CI: 0.38-0.82), Management safety justice (OR: 0.69, CI: 0.48-1), Workers’ safety commitment (OR: 0.62, CI: 0.42-0.93), Workers’ safety priority and risk non-acceptance (OR: 0.4 CI: 0.27-0.61) and safety communication, learning, and trust in co-worker safety competence (OR: 0.65, CI: 0.45-0.94). According to multivariate logistic regression analysis, those who had a work accident had a significantly lower score on the dimension of Workers’ safety priority and risk non-acceptance (OR: 0.46, CI: 0.30-0.70). Conclusion: In the study, one in three people had a work accident or near-miss accident during their working life and the level of work safety climate was quite good. It was determined that the history of near miss accidents and work accidents was significantly related to the dimensions of occupational safety climate.

Workplace Spirituality and Psychosocial Safety Climate: Moderating Role of Gratitude

The study examined the relationship between workplace spirituality and psychosocial safety climate among employees of Indian banks and insurance companies. It also explored the role of gratitude as a moderator in workplace spirituality and psychosocial safety climate. The empirical study measured the following three variables: workplace spirituality, psychosocial safety climate and gratitude. The sample size constituted 317 employees from the Indian banking and insurance sector. The study adopted a regression model that considered three dimensions of workplace spirituality as independent variables and psychosocial safety climate as dependent variables. The relationships between three variables are examined using correlation and multiple regression, and the moderation effect of gratitude is studied using the PROCESS macro in SPSS 21. The results revealed that three dimensions of workplace spirituality are significant predictors of psychosocial safety climate and could explain 61.2% of variations in psychosocial safety climate. It is observed that the workplace spirituality regression weight increases from 0.389 to 0.559 on interacting with gratitude; thus, there is a significant moderating effect of gratitude amid the relationships of three dimensions of workplace spirituality and psychosocial safety climate. Also, if employees display gratuitous behaviour, it will enhance the impact of workplace spirituality on the workplace’s psychosocial safety climate at Indian banking and insurance companies.

Retraction: Critical safety climate dimensions for improved safety behavior: perspectives of construction workers

Retraction: Critical safety climate dimensions for improved safety behavior: perspectives of construction workers

Assessment and Measurement of the Safety Climate Governing the Work Environments: A Large-scale Industrial-mining Company in Iran

Background and Objective: The safety climate is one of the most important indicators for the evaluation of the leading performance in work environments and a snapshot of the safety culture. The present research aimed to investigate the impact of safety climate among the employees of a large-scale industrial-mining company in Iran. Materials and Methods: The present study employs an applied research method in terms of its purpose and a descriptive cross-sectional design regarding its implementation. The statistical population includes employees working in four institutions of a large-scale industrial mining company and its subsidiary organizations, from which the participants were selected using a random sampling method. Data collection was performed through the Nordic Safety Atmosphere Questionnaire (NOSACQ-50). Data analysis was carried out using a one-way variance test and the SPSS 26 software. Results: The results indicated that the fourth dimension factor had the lowest score, and the seventh dimension factor had the highest score among the safety climate dimensions of the company and its subsidiaries. No significant difference was observed between the safety climate score and the variables, including age, work experience, job position, and education level (P<0.05). However, the average safety climate score in the measured institutions based on the ANOVA statistical test had a significant difference (P<0.05). The average score of the safety climate of the company and its subsidiaries was in relatively appropriate condition. Conclusion: The findings indicated that the measurement of the safety climate is a suitable tool for investigating the fields of intervention at organizational and managerial levels to improve safety and reduce accidents in the fields of industry and mining.

Integrating Literacy Programs to Strengthen School Safety Climate: A Research-Based Approach

Objective: This study aims to support the implementation of literacy programs in schools to enhance the school safety climate. The program targets the negative impacts of bullying and violence and helps students develop conflict resolution skills to reduce harmful incidents. Theoretical Framework: Academic literacy is defined as the ability to read and comprehend texts within specific content areas in a school setting. This includes understanding simple texts as well as addressing difficulties with more complex materials often encountered in school. Method: A quantitative approach with path analysis and purposive sampling was used, with the Taro Yamane method applied to select relevant samples. The study examines five dimensions of the school safety climate: Teacher-Student Relationship Quality, Student Character and Behavior, Peer Relationships, School Safety Climate Quality, and Bullying Frequency. Results and Discussion: The findings reveal that Teacher-Student Relationships, Student Behavior, and Peer Relationships all have a direct impact on the quality of the school safety climate. The school safety climate, in turn, significantly influences the overall school environment. Research Implications: The study suggests that integrating literacy programs can significantly improve the school safety climate by enhancing relationships and reducing bullying. Originality/Value: The integration of literacy programs represents a novel approach to fostering a safer and more supportive school environment. These findings offer practical insights for schools aiming to enhance their safety climates and support student development.

Firearm Safety Dimensions, an Extension of the Military Safety Climate Questionnaire

The purpose of this pilot study is to identify specific safety climate dimensions pertaining to firearm safety and accidental discharge of firearms. New items capture the seriousness in firearms training pertaining to safety, handling and learning. The new items were developed in cooperation with the Swedish Armed Forces. The new items together with the Nordic safety climate questionnaire and the military safety climate questionnaire were distributed to one regiment within the Swedish Armed Forces. Data was collected and analyzed through statistical methods. An exploratory factor analysis initially indicated two new factors. The confirmatory factor analysis rejected one new factor keeping Serious firearms training. A two-level factor model was created influenced by accidents and incidents relating to firearms. Two latent variables were identified Safety Voice and Safety engagement both affected by accidents and incidents relating to firearms. The employee category squad leaders, soldiers or sailors at the lowest level of the organization, display significant differences compared to others in creating a climate were incidents and accidents might not be discussed or learnt from preventing unsafe behavior. The results from this study have one dominant limitation, this being that the sample size is only from one regiment. The new factor Serious firearms training need additional testing and validation before being adopted into an instrument. Future research should focus on verifying the two-level factor model with additional data from other military installations and to incorporate other types of variables into the model.

Analysis of Safety Climate in Construction of Coal Fired Steam Power Plant (CFSPP) X with Capacity 2x1000 MW

Introduction: Power plant construction process is complex with a lot of labor, machines and flammable materials, and the work carried out has high risk such as lifting, working at height, hot work such as welding, grinding, cutting and other activities that have a high risk. Objective: The objective of the research is to find out the overall picture of Work Safety Climate at CFSPP X and picture of Safety Climate at the Work and Personal level. Method: The design of this research is quantitative method, 58 questions by Zou & Sunindijo's Safety Climate framework in research of Fatma Lestari, et, al. 2020. Result: The description of the working Safety Climate of CFSPP X from 6 Dimension of Safety Climate are, Management Commitment mean is 3.92, Communication mean is 3,91, Training mean is 3,89, Personal Accountability mean is 3,87, Rule and Safety Procedure mean is 3,92, Supportive Environment mean is 3,90. The description of the Safety Climate at work and personal levels is good, with scores for all dimensions more than >3.30. There were 3 statements that received disagree answer from several respondents, which are: I report people who ignore safety procedures, 23 respondents, my responsibility is to work safely, including reporting colleagues who are not working safely, 5 respondents. There are punishments for unsafe behavior, 14 respondents. The Safety Climate dimension with the highest score is Management Commitment and Roles & Safety Procedure. Conclusion: The description of the Work Safety Climate, both at work and personal level, is good with score of more than >3.30. Disagree answer from several respondents was related to not wanting to report people who ignore safety procedures because there is punishment for unsafe behavior. The Safety Climate dimension with the highest score is Management Commitment, and for work attributes, both work and personal, Management Commitment and Rule & Safety Procedure dominate the highest average score.

RETRACTED: Critical safety climate dimensions for improved safety behavior: perspectives of construction workers

Although extensive research has been conducted to explain the high accident rates in the Indian construction industry, studies focusing on the contributions of the prevailing safety climate as an enabler of such incidences remain sparse. Safety climate plays a crucial role in shaping workers’ safety behaviors. Therefore, eliciting the perspectives of construction workers concerning safety climate dimensions that are critical for engendering improved safety behavior will provide valuable insights into the dimensions required to sustain the desired safety performance levels on construction sites. This study adopted a sequential mixed-methods research design. Purposively selected respondents and interviewees were surveyed and interviewed at various intervals. The study established that safety climate dimensions, such as effective leadership, effective communication, consultation, training, resources, incentives, and recognition, are critical in improving safety behavior among construction workers. The results of this study have significant implications for practice and knowledge, as they provide an approach for assessing the impact of different safety climate dimensions on the safety behavior of construction workers in India. Understanding these dimensions will lead to a framework for managing these challenges and improving construction safety performance. The study reported in this paper remains one of the few studies seeking to explore the impact of safety-climate dimensions on worker safety behavior in the construction industry.

Investigation of Patient Safety Attitudes of Operating Room Staff

Operating rooms are one of the most chaotic work environments in a hospital. Patient-safety measures must be followed to obtain standardization in health care in the operating rooms. This study was conducted to investigate the patient safety attitudes of the staff working in operating rooms.
 The study was conducted using a descriptive and cross-sectional design with staff working in central operating rooms between February 2017 and October 2017 in Balcali Hospital of the Medical Faculty of Cukurova University, and in Adana Numune Training and Research Hospital. The population of the study consisted of healthcare staff working in the operating room units. Rather than selecting a sample from the population, reaching the whole population was aimed. 254 people who accepted to participate in the study, and who met the inclusion criteria, were included in the study. Staff information forms for collecting demographic data of the staff, and the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) for assessing patient safety attitudes of the staff, were used to collect the data. SPSS version 20 software was used to analyze the data. The results were interpreted using a 95 % confidence interval and a p < 0.05 significance level.
 The mean scores of the SAQ were as follows; the mean total SAQ scores were 49,58 ± 12,67, the scores for the teamwork climate dimension were 58,52±13,63, the scores for the job satisfaction dimension were 59,82±22,41, the scores for perceptions of management dimension were 44,35±22,99, the scores for safety climate dimension were 50,97±15,21, the scores for working conditions dimension were 51,35±25,01, and finally, the scores for stress recognition dimension were 36,83±16,14. 
 The results suggest that the patient safety attitudes of the staff working in the operating rooms were at an intermediate level. Providing necessary education and raising awareness are suggested to improve patient safety attitudes

Safety climate in Pakistani universities’ laboratories: an assessment of individual factors

ABSTRACT Objectives. Current research aims to identify factors that affect the occupational safety climate in university laboratories despite their perception as low-risk areas compared to industrial environments. Methods. A safety climate survey was conducted in science laboratories across various engineering universities in Pakistan. The survey questionnaire was administered to 406 personnel, and a quantitative method for analysis was selected to examine the socio-demographic variables. A 5-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree) was used to perceive responses from participants. Additionally, a scale reliability test was conducted, and multivariate analysis of variance was performed to determine the relationship between selected dependent and independent variables. Results. The study found an overall safety climate score of 3.16 ± 0.55, indicating a moderate to high perception of safety on a scale of 1–5. Parameters such as role in the laboratory, departments/disciplines, accident experience and safety training significantly affected the safety climate score, while gender, age group, duration in university and accident witnessing did not. Conclusion. Upper management involvement, safety communication and direct supervision are crucial for improving the safety climate of university laboratories. The study recommends the consideration of the identified significant safety climate dimensions in laboratory safety policy-making at academic institutes.

Nurses' perceptions about the patient safety climate in Primary Health Care.

to evaluate the patient safety climate in Primary Health Care from the perspective of nurses working in the services. a quantitative and cross-sectional study conducted with 148 nurses from a municipality in the state of São Paulo. The Brazilian version of the Primary Care Safety Questionnaire Survey and personal, professional, and organizational performance variables (intention to stay at work, job satisfaction, care quality, and frequency of incidents) were used. Parametric and non-parametric comparison tests and Spearman's correlation coefficient were performed, considering a 5% significance level. the safety climate was positive, varying from 4.52 to 5.33 and differing across districts for workload (p=0.0214) and leadership (p=0.0129). The safety climate professional variables and dimensions differed in relation to the frequency of incidents. Teamwork and safety and learning system were strongly correlated with job satisfaction and moderately with perceived care quality. teamwork and safety and learning system stood out for their positive correlations with job satisfaction and care quality. A positive safety climate favors the involvement of Primary Care nurses to develop improvement plans aligned with the National Patient Safety Program. (1) The safety climate is perceived differently across health districts. (2) There is a correlation between the climate dimensions and professional satisfaction. (3) Workload and leadership exert an influence on the safety climate perception. (4) There is a relationship between the safety climate and reporting of care-related incidents. (5) The safety climate is perceived differently among nurses regarding their role.

Analysis of Work Safety Climate Based on Demographic Characteristics in the Phosphoric Acid Industry Using Radar Plot

Introduction: Phosphoric acid production has not been achieved in the phosphoric acid industry due to unsafe actions and conditions influenced by various factors, including workplace safety. The work safety climate can measure certain perceptions of safety factors in the workplace and has seven dimensions. The demographic characteristics have a relationship with the perceptions of working safety. This study aims to analyze the work safety climate based on demographic characteristics in the phosphoric acid industry using a radar plot. Methods: The research design was a descriptive quantitative method with a cross-sectional approach. The population of the study is 44 workers in the phosphoric acid industry, with a total sampling of 44 employees. The dependent variable of the study was the work safety climate, and the independent variable was the demographic characteristics. The instrument employs NOSACQ-50 (50 questions) and analyzes the data with frequency tables and radar plot diagrams. Results: Dimensions management safety priority, commitment and competence were classified as good. The work safety climate is good, based on education level and age category. The work safety dimension based on job position is classified as relatively bad. Conclusion: The best dimension of work safety climate is in the foreman job position, the dimension of work safety climate is best at the education level after high school graduation, and the dimension of work safety climate is best at all age categories.

Can School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) improve adolescents' perceptions of school climate?

As school climate plays a key role in adolescents' academic and socio-emotional outcomes, interventions that can enhance this climate are of major interest. In considering research on practices linked to a positive school climate, School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) is a promising approach. To date, most SWPBIS studies have been conducted in English-speaking countries and have been based primarily on adults' perceptions or reports (e.g., suspension rates, office discipline referrals). There is a dearth of research on the effectiveness of SWPBIS among adolescents in different cultural contexts. Moreover, little is known about its propensity to influence adolescents' perceptions of school climate dimensions. The present study examined the effects of SWPBIS on different dimensions of school climate as perceived by French adolescents enrolled in Grades 6–9. An experimental effectiveness study was conducted among 84 grades from 21 middle schools. Multilevel analyses were conducted on data from a sample of 6765 adolescents (Mage = 12.3 years, SD = 1.23; 51% girls) from 40 control and 44 intervention grades, controlling for grade-level school climate dimensions at baseline. The results suggest that SWPBIS had a positive effect on educational, safety, and teacher-student school climate dimensions. No effects were found on belonging, fairness, and between-students school climate dimensions. The findings suggest that SWPBIS had a positive effect on adolescents' perceptions of three school climate dimensions regardless of their initial perception levels. These results may provide future directions for school teams, researchers, and policymakers interested in ways to improve school climate.

Influence of Safety Climate on Safety Performance in Gas Stations in Indonesia

Accidents in gas stations may cause injury or even death to people. Moreover, an accident in a gas station might halt its operation for some time. When an accident takes place in a region with scant amount of gas stations, it may lead to fuel scarcity in the area, affecting the economy and sparking other issues. Therefore, safety climate and safety performance in gas stations need to be evaluated. Safety climate has been used as a tool to assess the safety performance of an organization at a given time. The aim of this study was to understand the influence of safety climate on safety performance in gas stations in Indonesia. A total of 129 gas stations were selected. To assess safety climate, a safety climate questionnaire was used, while the safety performance was captured by conducting on site structured observations. The assessment shows that gas stations have a good level of safety climate, especially when it is compared with other industrial sectors in Indonesia, such as construction. The study findings also show that safety climate has a significant positive impact on safety performance. Three safety climate dimensions with significant positive influence on safety performance are management commitment, communication, and personal accountability. Therefore, improvement efforts should focus more on these dimensions to boost safety performance in gas stations.

Safety climate in high safety maturity organisations: development of a multidimensional and multilevel safety climate questionnaire

The proliferation of operationalisation approaches to safety climate has failed short of establishing a common set of dimensions and measurement items. Furthermore, extant measures are designed to accommodate all organisations regardless of safety management maturity; thus, a safety climate measurement scale suited to high-maturity organisations is still missing. Drawing on a systematic review of safety climate measurement literature, the article reports the development and validation of a multi-dimensional and multi-level safety climate measurement scale, suited to organisations with high safety management maturity. To corroborate the validity of the measure, the study was conducted in cooperation with health & safety managers from 15 large companies with a mature safety management system. Following initial questionnaire development, a multi-stage validation procedure was implemented on data from four large companies (totalling 880 participants) operating in the electric power distribution, oilfield services, manufacturing, minting and printing sectors in Italy. Exploratory factor analysis was used for the identification of the underlying structure of the set of items. Confirmatory factor analysis was undertaken to evaluate the model fit at the validation stages. The final version of the questionnaire consists of eight safety climate dimensions and 60 items. A short version of the scale is also validated to provide a more balanced, while complete and reliable, measurement tool (totalling 40 items). Lastly, implications for safety practitioners are discussed, providing directions on how to utilise the scale for identifying safety improvement opportunities.

Relationship between Employees’ Characteristics and Occupational Safety Climate in Phosphoric Acid Industry

Introduction: The Indonesian government has issued, through the Ministry of Manpower, an announcement that occupational health and safety is the creation of a conducive employment climate. This research aims to determine the relationship between characteristics of employees (age, education level, and job title or position) and work safety climate in the Phosphoric Acid Industry. Method: This research is an observational study with quantitative method. The population of this research is the employees of the phosphoric acid plant in the Phosphoric Acid Industry, totaling 44 people and total sampling technique as the sampling method. The researchers used the Pearson Spearman correlation test. Result: All dimensions of occupational safety have a weak correlation with the age of employees. Several dimensions have negative correlations with age like dimension of employees’ occupational safety priority and unacceptable risks, dimension of employees’ occupational safety commitment, dimensions of priority and occupational safety management capability. All dimensions of occupational safety climate have a positive correlation with the level of education. Dimension of trust toward the organization, dimensions of priority, and occupational safety management capability; dimension of occupational safety empowerment have moderate correlations with education level. Most dimensions of occupational safety climate have a negative correlation with the job positions. There is one dimension that is positively correlated with the job position, namely the dimension of trust toward the organization. Conclusion: The results of the study found that there was no strong relationship between employee characteristics (age, education level, position) with the dimensions of work safety climate.

Examining the effect of safety climate on accident risk through job stress: a path analysis

BackgroundJob stress is a probable mediator of the relationship between safety climate and accident occurrence. To demonstrate this, this study investigates the relationship between safety climate, job stress, and accident risk using a large number of surveys. The study will use structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze the data collected from the surveys to examine the effect of safety climate on accident risk through job stress.MethodsThe study is a cross-sectional study that was conducted on 1,530 male workers of a petrochemical company. The subjects were asked to complete several questionnaires during rest periods, which included demographic information, the Nordic safety climate questionnaire (NOSACQ-50), and the generic job stress questionnaire (GJSQ). Additionally, data on the frequency and intensity of accidents among participants were gathered from the health unit of the company. Path analysis was conducted by structural equation modeling (SEM) in Analysis of Moment Structures (AMOS) software.ResultsThe results revealed that the latent variable of safety climate with an effect coefficient of – 0.112 did not have a direct effect on accident risk (P = 0.343). However, safety climate with an effect coefficient of − 0.633 had an indirect effect on accident risk through job stress (P < 0.001). The total score of job stress had a significant direct effect (0.649) on accident risk (P < 0.001). Among the dimensions of safety climate, the variables of management’s safety priority, commitment, and competence (− 0.108) and workers’ safety commitment (− 0.107) had the highest indirect effect coefficients on accident risk. Among the dimensions of job stress, the highest indirect effects belonged to the variables of conflict at work (0.636), physical environment (0.631), and workload and responsibility (0.631), respectively.ConclusionThe results of the study revealed that job stress mediates the relationship between safety climate and accident risk. This finding suggests that organizations can potentially decrease accidents in industries by addressing and managing job stress in the workplace.

Safety Climate Assessment in Fuel Stations in the West Java Region

Fuel station accidents still happen frequently all around the world. Accidents in fuel stations may cause harm to many. Fuel station environments must thus be managed well to maintain a high safety climate level. However, our literature review shows that research on the safety climate in fuel stations is scarce. This study attempts to assess the safety climate level in fuel stations in the West Java region, Indonesia. The aims of this research are to acquire the safety climate level of fuel stations, review safety climate dimensions which need serious improvement, and discover key aspects that impact the safety climate level. To achieve these goals, the Bahasa Indonesia version of the NOSACQ-50 questionnaire was used to assess the safety climate in 240 fuel stations; 678 responses were collected. The findings show that the safety climate level of fuel stations was, on average, 3.07, which is a fairly good score. Among all seven dimensions, workers’ safety priority and risk non-acceptance need the most improvement. Moreover, safety training is found to be the most influential aspect on safety climate because workers with training experience have higher safety climate perceptions. Ironically, more than 28% of respondents reported that they had not been properly trained. Therefore, fuel stations need to make sure that all employees have attended appropriate safety training. In this way, higher safety climate ratings can be achieved, hence moving forward to a safer working environment.

Effect of Psychosocial Safety Climate on Organizational Citizenship Behaviours of Operators in the Ready-Made Garment Industry in Bangladesh

This study aimed to explore the effect of four dimensions of psychosocial safety climate (PSC) on organizational citizenship behaviour toward individuals (OCBI) and organizations (OCBO) of operator-level employees of the ready-made garment (RMG) industry in Bangladesh. Despite having plenteous research in the PSC and OCB literature, the development of theoretical models and validation were the gaps that required attempts to investigate the role of specific dimensions of PSC on the employees’ positive behavioural outcomes. The study followed quantitative, co-relational and cross-sectional approaches to examine the responses of 327 sample participants. The population of this study was all operating employees of the RMG organizations registered with BGMEA located in Dhaka. The study collected data through a structured questionnaire following the survey method. The present study developed a theoretical model and employed the PLS-SEM technique to justify the reliability and validity (convergent and discriminant) of the measurement model and test the study hypotheses through the structural model assessment. The study employed SPSS v.20 and Smart PLS v.3.3.3 for common method variance and the descriptive and inferential statistical assessments. The study results supported six hypotheses out of eight and unveiled that the employees’ perception of three dimensions of PSC (PSCMS, PSCOC and PSCOP) had positive impacts on OCBI and OCBO. Besides, the other two hypotheses were not supported by the study results, where the impacts of PSCMP on OCBI and OCBO were examined. The study discussed its findings in alignment with previous research reports and presented suggestions for future researchers and practitioners. This study poses theoretical implications in developing and corroborating a new conceptual model in PSC and OCB literature that cover the impact of each dimension of PSC on employees’ OCBI and OCBO. The findings of this study will contribute practically by sending a message to the higher authority of Bangladeshi RMG organizations that the employees’ psychosocial well-being oriented managerial support, communication, and participation will persuade the employees to expose the greater extent of OCB.

In Search of Differences in the Perception of Safety Climate by Employees of an International Manufacturing Company.

The implementation of effective workforce safety programmes ought to be linked to an understanding of the specificity of the work in the organisation concerned, taking into consideration the assessment of the level of safety expressed by the professional group representing it at the executive level. The main purpose of the study presented in the paper, which is part of a broader project of researching safety culture in the organisation, is a diagnosis of the safety climate in the Polish branch of an international manufacturing company. The following research question was formulated: Is the examined international manufacturing company a homogeneous organisation from the point of view of assessing its safety culture? The research was exploratory. In total, 203 respondents, which amounts to 35% of the employees, participated in the study. The selection of the sample was representative-in proportion to the number of employees in individual departments and their positions in the examined organisation. The presented paper includes an analysis of the results obtained on the basis of the abbreviated version of the Safety Climate Questionnaire, a self-developed tool to assess ten separate dimensions of safety climate. The results of a single-factor analysis of variance (ANOVA) along with post hoc tests prove that there is a statistically significant difference between the respondents representing different positions in the organisation and different areas of employment. The position held in the company significantly differentiates the employees in a statistically significant way-in eight out of eleven diagnostic areas, including the Summary Safety Climate Indicator (SSCI). In the case of department, statistically significant differences were found in seven out of eleven diagnostic areas. Education proved to be the factor that differentiates the respondents the least in terms of the assessment of workplace safety climate. Statistically significant differences occurred only in three out of eleven diagnostic areas. The observed differences in the assessment of the dimensions of workplace safety climate point to the need for the promotion of more diversified and individualised measures, taking into account the specificity of work and the nature of hazards in a given position, and the creation of practical safety programmes not only in the procedural and technical dimensions but also in social and psychological ones.