Development of an Occupational Health and Safety Literacy Scale among Industrial Workers
Keywords:
Scale Development, Occupational Health and Safety Literacy, Industrial WorkersAbstract
This study aimed to develop an occupational health and safety literacy scale among industrial workers. Samples included 378 industrial workers. The developed scale consisted of 4 dimensions; accessing, understanding, appraising, and applying information. Confirmatory factor analysis and Cronbach’s alpha coefficients were used for testing construct validity and reliability of the scale. For its psychometric evaluation, confirmatory factor analysis showed that the model had satisfactory goodness of fit (GFI = 0.94, AGFI = 0.91, CFI = 0.98, NFI = 0.93) Cronbach’s alpha coefficients of the scale was 0.82. The results provide support for validity and reliability of the scale. This scale could be used to study in promoting an occupational health and safety literacy among industrial workers.
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