A structured and hierarchical safe climate model and its application to safe communities. Issue 3 (3rd July 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Li, Jianfeng; Tong, Ruipeng
• Is Part Of: Safety & reliability. Volume 38:Issue 3(2018)
• Page Start: 137
• Page End: 170
• Publication Date: 2018-07-03
• Subjects: Safety climate -- safe community -- questionnaire -- safe community factor; Reliability (Engineering) -- Periodicals; System safety -- Periodicals; Risk assessment -- Periodicals; Industrial safety -- Periodicals; Industrial safety; Reliability (Engineering); Risk assessment; System safety; Electronic journals; Periodicals; 620.00452
• DOI: 10.1080/09617353.2019.1611294
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0961-7353

Abstract

Abstract: This study aims to examine the question of community management in China. Particular attention will be paid to the concept of community safety climate, including its meaning, the factors that influence it, and the research methods that have been used. This study has conducted a community injury and accident case analysis. It has also conducted an expert and on-site questionnaire survey. The results show that there are ten principal components of community safety climate. A new questionnaire that was targeted at community safety climate measurement was designed and developed. Five key factors of community safety climate were extracted by Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Principal Components Analysis (PCA). The key factors consisted of community staff safety awareness, community participation, level of management committed to the security, community security implementation, and community security training. A safe community climate model was made based on safety management, organisational behaviour theory, and statistical theory. The model was successfully used to quantitatively explain the relationship between the factor structure and factor combination. The factor structure and factor combination can be used to objectively analyse and explain the basic process of the current security management and community safety climate. The mechanism of community safety climate was displayed to find an improved evaluation method. It was found to be practicable to conduct a verification of safety climate evaluation as the basic theoretical and technological route for community accident prevention.