NOSACQ-50 Publications
Scientific articles (a selection, in chronological order)
Kines P, Lappalainen J, Mikkelsen KL, Pousette A, Tharaldsen J, Tómasson K & Törner M (2011). Nordic Safety Climate Questionnaire (NOSACQ-50): a new tool for measuring occupational safety climate. Int. J. Industrial Ergonomics, 41, 634-646.
Kjestveit K, Tharaldsen J & Holte KA (2011). Young and strong: What influences injury rates within building and construction? Safety Science Monitor, 15(2), article no. 5, 1-15.
Larsson A, Karlqvist L, Westerberg M & Gard G (2012). Identifying workability promoting factors for home care aids and assistant nurses. BMS Musculoskeletal Disorders, 13(1), 1-11.
Bergh M, Shahriari M & Kines P (2013). Occupational safety climate and shift work. Chemical Engineering Transactions, 31(1), 403-408.
Guldenmund F, Cleal B & Mearns K (2013). An exploratory study of migrant workers and safety in three European countries. Safety Science, 52, 92-99.
Yousefi Y, Jahangiri M, Choobineh A, Tabatabaei SH & Nowrozi A (2013). Validity and reliability of the Persian (Farsi) version of Nordic Safety Climate Questionnaire (NOASACQ-50). J Health System Research 2013; 9(8):812-818.
Lipscomb HJ, Schoenfisch AL & Cameron W (2015). Non-reporting of work injuries and aspects of jobsite safety climate and behavioral-based safety elements among carpenters in Washington State. Am J Ind Med. 2015 Apr;58(4):411-21.
Arifin KB, Abudin R, Razman MR, Ismail ZS & Ahmad M (2016). Safety climate assessment on priority, commitment and the efficiency of safety management. Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment, 14(2), 142-146.
Sutalaksana IZ & Anatasia M (2016). Linking safety climate perception to types of behavior. Work, 27;55(1):231-239.
Yosefi Y, Jahangiri M, Choobineh A, Tabatabaei H, Keshavarzi S, Shams A & Mohammadi Y (2016). Validity Assessment of the Persian Version of the Nordic Safety Climate Questionnaire (NOSACQ-50): A Case Study in A Steel Company. Safety and Health at Work, 7(4), 326-330.
Arifin K, Abudin R, Razman MR & Ismail ZS (2017). Safety of climate levels related to the safety management on empowerment dimension aspects. Information 20, 4921–4926.
Forsell K, Eriksson H, Järvholm B, Lundh M, Andersson E & Nilsson R (2017). Work environment and safety climate in the Swedish merchant fleet. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 90, 161-168.
Ha SY, Kim SK, Son SH & Ha SG (2017). Safety Perception Level of Workers in Construction Site According to NOSACQ-50. J. Korea Inst. Build. Construction, 17, 567–576.
Nadhim E, Hon C, Xia, B, Stewart I & Fang D (2018). Investigating the Relationships between Safety Climate and Safety Performance Indicators in RetrofittingWorks. Constr. Econ. Build. 18, 110–129.
Sukapto P, Djojosoebroto H, Bonita, Susanto S, & Ariningsih PK (2018). A new approach to the assessment of the safety environment and performance in the footwear industry. Int. J. Simul. Sys. Sci. Technol. 19, 14.1–14.7.
Fargnoli M & Lombardi M. (2019). Safety climate and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: An investigation on safety perceptions among farmers in Italy. Safety, 7, 52, 21 pages.
Lagerstrom E, Magzamen S, Kines P, Brazile W & Rosecrance J (2019). Determinants of safety climate in the professional logging industry. Safety 5, 35.
Marín LS, Lipscomb H, Cifuentesd M & Punnette L (2019). Perceptions of safety climate across construction personnel: Associations with injury rates. Safety Science, 118, 487-496.
Schüler M & Matuszczyk JV (2019). Safety climate in military organizations: A pilot study of an adjusted multi-domain instrument. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 63(1), 1373-1377.
Sukapto P, Octavia JR, Pundarikasutra PAD, Ariningsh PK & Susanto S (2019). Improving occupational health and safety and in the home-based footwear industry through implementation of ILO-PATRIS, NOSACQ-50 and participatory ergonomics: A case study. Int. J. Technol. 10, 908–917.
Voon H & Ariff TM (2019). Factors influencing safety behaviour among primary school teachers in Kuala Nerus, Malaysia. Int. J. Recent Technol. Eng. 8, 345–351.
Özay ME, Yılmaz A & Uçan R (2020). Occupational safety culture of accommodation sector employees in Balıkesir province: NOSACQ-50 survey. International Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences, 6(2), 186-193.
Fargnoli M & Lombardi M (2020). NOSACQ-50 for safety climate assessment in agricultural activities: A case study in central Italy. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Dec 8;17(24):9177.
Brandt M, Sundstrup E, Andersen LL, Wilstrup NM & Ajslev JZN (2021). Safety climate as a predictor of work ability problems in blue-collar workers: prospective cohort study. BMJ Open, 11:e040885;
Kwon YT, Son S, Kim S, Ha SG & Son K (2021). Worker safety perception analysis of South Korean construction sites. Int J Occup Saf Ergon. 27(2):488-496.
Alamoudi M (2022). The integration of NOSACQ-50 with importance-performance analysis technique to evaluate and analyze safety climate dimensions in the construction sector in Saudi Arabia. Buildings, 12(11), 1855.
Arooj A, Majid M, Alam A & Bilal MF (2022). Assessment of workplace safety climate among power sector employees: A comparative study of cross-culture employer in Pakistan. PLoS ONE, 17(8): e0272976.
Kartoğlu C, Senol YE & Kum S (2022). Safety culture of navigators in terms of bridge operations on high-speed crafts. Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs. 22 pages
Öğüt S & Caner Akin G (2022). Evaluation of occupational health and safety climate in health workers working in units containing radiation fields of hospitals. Journal of Science, Technology and Engineering Research, 3(2): 68-79.
Schüler M & Matuszczyk JV (2022). A multi-domain instrument for safety climate: Military safety climate questionnaire.(MSCQ) and NOSACQ-50 Safety Science, 154, 105851.
Summers D, Sarris A, Harries J & Kirby N (2022). The development of a brief and practical work safety climate measure. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 87, 103255.
Wibowo A, Lestari F & Modjo R (2023). Safety climate assessment in fuel stations in the West Java Region. Safety, 9(9), 1-19.
Doctoral and Master theses and Bachelor projects (a selection, in alphabetical order)
Andoh, Mavis (2013). The relationship between leadership style and safety climate: A case study of Goldfields Ghana Limited, Tarkwa-cil plant. Master Thesis. Blekinge Institute of Technology ( download Andoh's thesis here )
Bergh, Maria (2011). Safety Climate - An evaluation of the safety climate at AkzoNobel Site Stenungsund. Master Thesis, Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Product and Product Development - Division of Productions Systems, Gothenburgh, Sweden ( download Bergh's thesis here )
Bilal, Mian Farooq (2017). Determination of safety climate/culture in power plants using NOSACQ. Master Thesis. Superior College, Lahore, Pakistan ( download Bilal's thesis here )
Dorsey, Veatasha (2014). Sociodemographic differences in perceptions of occupational safety climate. Master Thesis. School of Public Health - Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, USA ( download Dorsey's thesis here)
Jackson, Heather (2021). Benchmarking occupational safety performance of the coal and metalliferous mining industry in New South Wales, Australia. PhD Thesis. The University of Newcastle, Australia ( download Jackson's thesis here )
James, Keith (2023). To explore and critically analyse the relationship between a worksite’s perceived safety climate and its safety performance within the United Kingdom’s offshore oil and gas environment. MSc thesis, University of Strathclyde, Centre for Lifelong Learning, UK. ( download James' thesis here )
Kartoğlu, Cem (2022). Analysis of relationships among mental workload, situational awareness, and safety culture in terms of bridge navigation operations on high speed crafts. PhD Thesis - abstract in English, Department of Maritime Transportation Engineering, Istanbul Technical University ( download Kartağlu's thesis here )
Kinik, Yusuf (2010). Improving Safety Culture - A study performed at KLM Engineering & Maintenance. Master Thesis, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, Department of Maintenance, Reliability Engineering & Safety.
Koehler-Warren, Amy Lynn (2023). The relationship between transformational leadership, organizational safety climate, and job satisfaction: A quantitative study. PhD thesis, Columbia Southern University, Alabama, USA ( download Koehler-Warren's thesis here )
Krogh-Pedersen, Helene & Bjerg, Lars Henrik (2009). Master Thesis. A true safety culture. Master Thesis. Technical University of Denmark, Department of Management Engineering.
Larsen, Michael & Simonsen, Peter (2009). National expectations towards safety. (Nationale forventninger til sikkerhed - In Danish). Master Thesis. Technical University of Denmark, Department of Management Engineering.
Larsson, Agneta (2011). Identifying, describing and promoting health and work ability in a workplace context. PhD Thesis. Department of Health Sciences, Division of Health and Rehabilitation, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden ( download Larsson's thesis here )
Mufidah, Ilma (2012). Safety climate evaluation in Indonesian ship building industries. Bachelor project. Industrial Engineering Department, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS), Surabaya, Indonesia ( download Mufidah's report here )
Prasetio, Fatih Dani (2012). The use of comparative test in safety climate assessment and the design of NOSACQ-50 questionnaire software. Bachelor project. Occupational Safety and Health Engineering Department, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS), Surabaya, Indonesia ( download Prasetio's theses abstract )
Ryan, Blaine (2021). Safety in Data Centre Construction: An investigation into safety climate and its relationship with safety performance. Master Thesis. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland ( download Ryan's thesis here )
Schüler, Martin (2022). Safety climate in a military organization. PhD Thesis. University West, Trollhättan, Sweden ( download Schüler's thesis here )
Ware, Brandy A. Farris (2014). The relationship between affective organizational commitment and organizational safety climate: A quantitative correlational study. PhD thesis (3621448), Capella University, Ann Arbor ( download Ware's thesis here )
Other publicised studies (a selection, in alphabetical order)
Bergh M (2013). (An evaluation of safety climate among some of IPS's member companies). En utvärdering av säkerhetsklimat bland några av IPS medlemsföretag. COWI, Sweden. (In Swedish with English abstract). ( download Bergh's report here )
Guldenmund F, Chen M, Cleal B & Mearns K (2010). The relationship between accidents of foreign workers and their cultural background; an exploratory study. Delft University of Technology. Netherlands.
Harries J, Ford J & Kirby N. (2018) Translating into Practice the Recommendations of a Safety Climate Theory-Based Evaluation of Services Provided by Disability Support Workers. In: Leung MT., Tan LM. (eds) Applied Psychology Readings. Springer, Singapore, 263-279.
Heffernan C, Harries J & Kirby N (2018) Theoretical Components of Workplace Safety Climate and Their Implications for Practice. In: Leung MT., Tan LM. (eds) Applied Psychology Readings. Springer, Singapore, 217-237.
Vu T, & De Cieri H (2015). A review and evaluation of safety culture and safety climate measurement tools (pp. 68). Monash University: WorkSafe Victoria ( download Vu and De Cieri's report here )
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