Burt, C.D.B., <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Gladstone</st1:place></st1:city>, K.L., & Grieve, K.R. (1998). Development of the considerate and responsible employee (CARE) scale. Work & Stress, 12, 362-369.
1. Workers should point out hazards to co-workers.
2. Workers should immediately remove hazards if possible.
3. Workers should avoid creating hazards for co-workers.
4. All workers should understand emergency procedures.
5. Safety depends on everyone following safety procedures.
6. Co-workers should be warned when their actions are unsafe.
7. Workers should assist each other with tasks to ensure safety.
8. Co-workers should discuss changes that could improve safety.
9. Supervisors should be notified of hazards.
10. Accidents should be reported to management.
11. Safety comes from worker cooperation.
12. Co-workers' limitations should be recognized.
13. Co-workers should give each other informal safety instruction.
14. Supporting coworkers ensures everyone's safety.
15. A worker should never be too busy to help a coworker.
16. Coworkers should discuss near misses.
17. What coworkers do on the job is their business. (r)
18. Coworkers should discuss past accidents.
19. A worker's responsibilities are confined to their job. (r)
20. Near misses should be reported to management.
21. Workers should lend tools to ensure safety.
Dedobbeleer and Beland measure used in Hofmann, D.A., & Stetzer, A. (1996). A cross-level investigation of factors influencing unsafe behaviors and accidents. Personnel Psychology, 49, 307-339.
Scale: Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Neither Agree nor Disagree, Agree, Strongly Agree.
1. Worker safety practices are important to management.
2. Supervisors and top management seem to care about your safety.
3. Your team leader emphasizes safe practices on the job.
4. Instructions on the safety policies and/or safety requirements of the company are provided to employees.
5. Your work team's safety meetings are helpful.
6. Proper equipment is available to do your job safely.
7. You have control over safety on the job.
8. Taking risks is part of your job. (r)
9. You think a member of your team will be involved in an accident in the next 12-month period. (r)
A revision/analysis of the original Zohar (1980) scale; Mueller, L., DaSilva, N., Townsend, J., & Tetrick, L. (1999). An empirical evaluation of competing safety climate measurement models. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ga.</st1:state></st1:place>
Rewards for working safely
1. In this organization, good performance depends on safety training.
2. My supervisor negatively evaluates workers who behave recklessly.
3. When a worker violates safety regulations, it has an adverse effort on the supervisor's evaluation of the worker even when no harm was caused.
4. In my facility, compliance with safety regulations is part of employees' annual written evaluations.
5. Within this organization, workers who take safety training courses have a better chance for promotion than those who don't take safety training.
6. Workers who behave safely have a higher chance for promotion than those who don't.
7. In this organization, being involved in an accident has an adverse effect on the worker's reputation.
8. In this organization, a worker's safety record is one of the main factors in promotion decisions.
Effect of safe behavior on social status
1. The best workers in the group expect other workers to behave safely.
2. Employees in my work group comply with safety regulations.
3. The best workers in the department care about safety.
4. Workers who work safely try to emphasize it and make sure others appreciate it.
5. Employees in my work group remind each other of the need to follow safety regulations.
6. Workers who violate safety regulations irritate their fellow workers even when no harm has resulted.
Effect of required work pace on safety
1. The reward system at my job promotes high performance even if it means acting unsafely.
2. My job duties often interfere with my ability to comply with safety regulations.
Management's attitude toward safety
1. Our management is well informed about safety problems.
2. Being involved in safety issues has a high priority in my organization.
3. Where I work, top level management gets personally involved in safety activities.
4. Reporting safety violations is a common practice where I work.
5. My supervisor tells a worker who is doing something unsafe to stop.
6. Management views safety regulation violations very seriously even when they don't result in apparent damage.
7. Our management acts quickly to correct safety issues.
8. Management is presently acting to make the work environment safer.
9. Management is willing to invest money and effort to improve safety level.
10. Safety issues are assigned high priority in management meetings in this organization.
11. Our management is well informed about safety issues in this plant.
12. Management in this organization is willing to invest money and effort to improve the safety level in the workplace.
13. When a safety regulation is issued, we are expected to follow it.
14. When a manager realizes that a hazardous situation has been found he immediately attempts to put it under control.
15. My supervisor values workers' suggestions for correcting safety hazards.
16. Being reprimanded for a safety violation causes a worker to behave more safely.
17. Workers who use personal protection equipment are considered to be conscientious.
18. The protection of workers from occupational exposure to hazards is a high priority with management.
19. Where I work, there is a safety committee.
20. Managers in this plant try to reduce risk levels as much as possible.
21. Plant management in this factory is always willing to adopt new ideas for improving the safety level.