Evaluation of safety climate factors - a macroergonomics approach: a case study in Iran

Objectives: the objective of this study is to evaluate the safety climate as an important part ofmacroergonomics domains and to determine the importance of each safety climate factor in an iraniancompany.methods: for data gathering, the researchers used macroergonomic organizational questionnairesurvey (moqs) method. for conducting this method we applied safety climate questionnaire whichhas been presented by vinodkumar et al. after distribution of questionnaires through our sampleswith accuracy of 5% and confidence level of 95% and gathering the questionnaires, data wereanalyzed using spss v.16 software and entropy.results: the number of returned valid questionnaires was 134 out of 151 and response rate was88.74%. questionnaire’s reliability which assessed by cronbach’s alpha was 0.928. the resultsindicated that mean of safety climate score was 154/84 and 68.7% of workers had positive safetyattitudes. in addition, we found a significant relationship between ages on safety climate (p< 0.05).the highest and lowest weights, which are obtained by entropy, belong to safeness of workenvironment and emergency preparedness in the organization with weights of 0.197 and 0.144respectively.discussion: considering catastrophic consequences of accidents in petrochemical industry, theresults show the importance of attention to safety principles and to develop a positive employeeattitudes related to safety.