“…Taking into account these limitations of previous studies and the current interest in a larger approach to safety behavior, particularly in the context of contemporary resemch on safety culture (3,(12)(13)(14), we think it is important to improve our analytical conceptualization of workers' safety behavior and the validity of our measurement tools for the benefit of both the research community and occupational safety practitioners. This paper reports results from a confirmatory factor analysis of worker behavior in occupational safety among a random sample of 828 manufacturing workers from 9 manufacturing facilities.…”