Table 2.

Items' eigenvalues and factor loading of different dimensions of the Persian version of the Nordic Safety Climate Questionnaire

Items	Factor loading	Correlation coefficients of items with scales	Extracted dimensions' loading eigenvalue (%)
1. Management encourages employees here to work in accordance with safety rules	0.628	0.742	29.77∗
2. Management ensures that everyone receives the necessary information on safety	0.665	0.723
3. Management looks the other way when someone is careless with safety	0.623	0.682
4. Management places safety before production	0.701	0.708
5. Management accepts employees here take risks when the work schedule is tight	0.656	0.705
6. We who work here have confidence in the management's ability to handle safety	0.740	0.760
7. Management ensures that safety problems discovered during safety rounds are corrected immediately	0.649	0.611
8. When a risk is detected, management ignores it without action	0.557	0.607
9. Management lacks the ability to handle safety properly	0.563	0.588
10. Management strives to design safety routines that are meaningful and actually work	0.744	0.774
11. Management makes sure that each and every one can influence safety in their work	0.767	0.785
12. Management encourages employees here to participate in decisions which affect their safety	0.703	0.731
13. Management never considers employees' suggestions regarding safety	0.597	0.718
14. Management strives for everybody at the worksite to have high competence concerning safety and risks	0.620	0.617
15. Management never asks employees for their opinions before making decisions regarding safety	0.589	0.685
16. Management involves employees' indecisions regarding safety	0.675	0.671
17. Management collects accurate information in accident investigations	0.628	0.679
18. Fear of sanctions from management discourages employees here from reporting near-miss accidents	0.477	0.567
19. Management listens carefully to all who have been involved in an accident event	0.677	0.703
20. Management looks for causes, not guilty persons, when an accident occurs	0.508	0.526
21. Management always blames employees for accidents	0.433	0.519
22. Management treats employees involved in an accident fairly	0.629	0.697
23. We who work here try hard together to achieve a high level of safety	0.583	0.761	7.28†
24. We who work here take joint responsibility to ensure that the workplace is always kept tidy	0.460	0.677
27. We who work here help each other to work safely	0.514	0.682
36. We who work here try to find a solution if someone points out a safety problem	0.447	0.628
37. We who work here feel safe when working together	0.681	0.765
38. We who work here have great trust in each other's ability to ensure safety	0.604	0.667
44. We who work here consider that a good safety representative plays an important role in preventing accidents	0.662	0.766	3.90‡
46. We who work here consider that safety training is good for preventing accidents	0.723	0.809
48. We who work here consider that safety rounds/evaluations help find serious hazards	0.563	0.696
50. We who work here consider that it is important that there are clear-cut goals for safety	0.725	0.796
30. We who work here consider minor accidents as a normal part of our daily work	0.445	0.705	3.43§
34. We who work here consider that our work is unsuitable for cowards	0.722	0.640
45. We who work here consider that safety rounds/evaluations have no effect on safety	0.510	0.378
25. We who work here do not care about each other's safety	0.417	0.646	3.17‖
26. We who work here avoid tackling risks that are discovered	0.597	0.574
28. We who work here take no responsibility for each other's safety	0.624	0.707
41. We who work here seldom talk about safety	0.409	0.591
43. We who work here can talk freely and openly about safety	0.413	0.548
47. We who work here consider early planning for safety as meaningless	0.657	0.736
49. We who work here consider that safety training is meaningless	0.544	0.657
31. We who work here accept dangerous behavior as long as there are no accidents	0.555	0.753	3.038¶
32. We who work here break safety rules in order to complete work on time	0.552	0.778
33. We who work here never accept risk taking even if the work schedule is tight	0.611	0.684
35. We who work here accept risk taking at work	0.685	0.663

^∗Management safety commitment and empowerment.

^†Workers' safety commitment.

^‡Workers' attitude toward safety.

^§Workers' safety priority.

^‖Workers' safety participation and communication.

^¶Workers' risk nonacceptance.