Safety climate of UAE petroleum industry: a cross-validation using confirmatory factor analytic approach
Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology
ISSN: 1726-0531
Article publication date: 20 November 2020
Issue publication date: 21 June 2021
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate a safety climate scale for measuring the safety climate in the oil and gas industry.
Design/methodology/approach
The scale developed through conducting a literature review about the safety climate and constructing a question pool. The number of items was reduced to 51 after performing a screening process. Explanatory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were performed to examine the scale’s construct validity.
Findings
CFA loadings were statistically significant. All Cronbach’s alpha (a) and composite reliability values support the construct reliability. The outcomes showed acceptable convergent and discriminant validity: AVEs showed acceptable values, and the square roots of AVE values showed higher values than the construct correlation values. Furthermore, all factor loadings exceeded 0.50, and the t-values were statistically significant. CFA loadings were statistically significant.
Originality/value
The safety climate measuring scale of 43-instrument items produced in this study is reliable and valid for the oil and gas industry.
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Acknowledgements
The authors thanks Dr Karam for assistance with developing the methodology preparation and Dr Alzarooni for comments that greatly improved the manuscript.
They would also like to show our gratitude to Alain University faculties for sharing their pearls of wisdom with them during the course of this research, and they thank all the participants from downstream and upstream oil and gas companies for being part of this research.
Citation
Almazrouei, M., Khalid, K. and Davidson, R. (2021), "Safety climate of UAE petroleum industry: a cross-validation using confirmatory factor analytic approach", Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, Vol. 19 No. 4, pp. 943-965. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEDT-04-2020-0138
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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