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Received: 2019-11-18  |  Accepted: 2020-03-15  |  Published: 2020-06-30

Title

Development and validation of a safety climate scale for United Arab Emirates oil and gas industries


Abstract

This study aims to develop and validate a safety climate scale for United Arab Emirates (UAE) oil and gas industries to enhance the process safety performance. This study was performed at the Abu Dhabi Oil National Company (ADNOC) in the UAE. Principal component analysis was used to analyze the response data, resulting in the identification of five safety climate dimensions. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was then performed to test the relationships among the constructs of safety climate dimensions as conceptualized in a measurement model. Finally, a structural model was developed to measure the significance of these five safety climate dimensions in the oil and gas industries in the UAE. This paper confirms the importance of measuring and incorporating multiple factors comprehensively to obtain a complete picture of the implementation and perceptions of safety climate in oil and gas companies in the UAE. It also provides a reliable and validated instrument and first- and second-order models for measuring the safety climate dimensions, which affect the performance of safety in general, and process safety, which is specifically useful for informing practitioner regarding focus area to enhance safety performance.


Keywords

safety climate, accidents, oil and gas, structural equation modeling


JEL classifications

F64 , G32 , H12 , J28


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/558


DOI


Pages

2863-2882


Funding

The research was supported by Abu Dhabi University, College of Business, United Arab Emirates

This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Authors

Al Mazrouei, Mohamed Ali
Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates https://www.adu.ac.ae
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Khalid, Khalizani
Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates https://www.adu.ac.ae
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Davidson, Ross
Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates https://www.adu.ac.ae
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

7


Number

4


Issue date

June 2020


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

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