Table 2.

Policy, training, and other sun safety actions reported by regional district managers at baseline.

Characteristic	Overall Sample
N	1113
Occupational Sun Safety Risk and Support:
Susceptibility to skin cancer1	3.55 (0.88)
I personally support adopting policies to protect employees from the sun at my organization2	4.16 (0.83)
Employees should take action on their own to protect themselves from the sun while at work, without my organization telling them to do so.2	4.12 (0.90)
Awareness of Policy and Procedures:
Organization has a formal written policy, administrative procedure, or training standard on sun protection for its employees Yes No/don't know	30.5% 69.6%
How much do employees that report to you agree with the formal written policy, administrative procedure, or training standard on sun protection for employees3 (n = 328 managers reporting a policy)	2.32 (0.52)
How are the employees that report to you following the policy4 (n = 328 managers reporting a policy)	3.51 (0.75)
Organization has unwritten standard operating administrative, or training procedure, or any other unwritten rules, intended to improve sun protection of employees Yes No/don't know	40.2% 59.8%
Aware of any other public organizations like yours that have policies, rules, or standard operating procedures intended to improve the sun protection of employees Yes No/don't know	8.7% 91.3%
Innovation Characteristics of Occupational Sun Safety:1
Necessary	3.69 (0.93)
Too expensive	2.40 (0.84)
Compatible with work procedures	3.79 (0.75)
Too complicated	2.37 (0.81)
Would be acceptable to employees	3.63 (0.83)
Would improve my organization's existing risk management or employee wellness programs	3.85 (0.76)
Composite innovation characteristics5	3.70 (0.59)
Training on Occupational Sun Safety:
Training on the health risks of sun exposure is provided to employees	48.1%
Training regarding sun safety is delivered to managers and supervisors	40.2%
Composite measure of sun safety training6	51.5%
Workplace Sun Safety Actions:
The UV Index is monitored and outdoor work activities are modified with regard to risk of harm associated with the UV Index level	9.3%
Employees wear UV-protective clothing or uniforms (shirts with sleeves; long pants), hats, and/or eyewear when outdoors	40.1%
Employees wear sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or greater when outdoors	25.0%
Temporary or permanent shade structures are provided in the work environment	16.5%
Messages are communicated to employees about protecting their skin and eyes from the sun while outdoors at work.	65.7%
My employer requests that staff employed by contractors/subcontractors comply with the sun safety policy while working in my employer's work environments	8.3%
My employer provides sun protection resources, such as sunscreen, UV-protective clothing/ uniforms, hats, and/or eyewear to employees. “Provides” means your employer gives employees these items or gives employees money to purchase them for use at work	59.5%
My employer encourages employees to regularly check their skin for signs of skin cancer either by themselves or by a physician	26.0%
My employer conducts a risk assessment of sun exposure and sun protection for employees in the work environment	7.8%
Composite measure of sun safety actions7	2.54 (2.03)

¹Combined scale: Compared to people working in other organizations or companies in the United States, I am more likely to get skin cancer in my lifetime and the employees in my organization are more likely to get skin cancer in their lifetime compared to people working in other organizations and companies in the United States (1 = strongly disagree; 5 = strongly agree; Cronbach's alpha = 0.77 (standardized).

²1 = strongly disagree; 5 = strongly agree.

³1 = not at all; 2 = somewhat; 3 = very much.

⁴1 = not at all; 2 = a little; 3 = somewhat; 4 = mostly; 5 = completely.

⁵Cronbach's alpha =0.81 (standardized).

⁶Cronbach's alpha = 0.83 (standardized).

⁷Cronbach's alpha = 0.74 (standardized).