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.
Schüler M (2024). Firearm safety dimensions, an extension of the Military Safety Climate Questionnaire. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 68(1), 1064-1070
Min J, Jang TW, Lee HE, Kang MY, Cho SS (2024). Association between the safety climate and occupational injury in the Korean working population: a cross-sectional study Epidemiology and Health, 46, e2024082.
Schüler M (2025). Validating a shortened version of the Nordic safety climate questionnaire (NOSACQ) on a military population. Safety Science, 191, 106946.
Kartoglu C, Senol YE & Kum S (2025). Mental workload, situational awareness, and safety culture in high-speed craft navigation: A multidimensional analysis of Turkish bridge officers.Maritime Technology and Research, 8(1), 281339.
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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