Campus Units
Supply Chain and Information Systems
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
11-2018
Journal or Book Title
Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
Volume
59
Issue
Part A
First Page
445
Last Page
462
DOI
10.1016/j.trf.2018.09.018
Abstract
Safety is of critical importance in many industries. One of the more dangerous environments in industry, and the military, is air freight handling, where the fatal injury rate has consistently been higher than the national average. Nonetheless, peer-reviewed safety research that is focused on air freight handling is practically non-existent. Therefore, research that helps academicians and managers better understand safety climate and its potential influence on employee attitudes and behaviors is vitally important. To address these concerns, we develop and validate an air freight handling-specific safety climate scale capable of capturing employees’ safety climate perceptions at the organization and group levels. We also found that, in general, measurement scale dimensions in this context are like those in other high-risk, transportation-related contexts, and that the nomological network may be converging on a cross-context set of safety climate dimensions. The resultant scale can be used to investigate safety climate’s relationship with various employee attitudes, safety and operational behaviors in this high-risk environment.
Rights
Works produced by employees of the U.S. Government as part of their official duties are not copyrighted within the U.S. The content of this document is not copyrighted.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Roberts, Matthew D.; Douglas, Matthew A.; Overstreet, Robert E.; Ogden, Jeffrey A.; and Schubert Kabban, Christine M., "Development and validation of a multi-level air freight handling safety climate scale" (2018). Supply Chain Management Publications. 52.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/scm_pubs/52
Comments
This article is published as Roberts, M.D., Douglas, M.A., Overstreet, R.E., Ogden, J., and Schubert-Kabban, C. (2018). Development and validation of a multi-level air freight handling safety climate scale. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 59(Part A), 445–462. doi: 10.1016/j.trf.2018.09.018.