safety-climate-survey

A safety-climate-survey is a human-made instrument consisting of a standardized set of items (statements or questions) administered to members of an organization on a Likert-type scale, scored across predefined dimensions (e.g., supervisory safety commitment, co-worker safety norms, organizational priority of safety vs. production, reporting climate, risk perception). Its parameters are: (1) domain dimensions drawn from established occupational health psychology frameworks, (2) a fixed item set calibrated through factor analysis, (3) a scoring key that maps raw responses to dimension scores, and (4) a normative or longitudinal reference frame for interpretation. It persists through structured administration protocols, score repositories, and the institutional memory of repeated cycles — not as a physical artifact but as a repeatable procedure encoded in survey platforms and organizational practice. [formal: survey-climaticus | substrate: behavior | horizon: hours | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.01]