Occupational Health and Safety and Turnover Intention in the Ghanaian Power Industry: The Mediating Effect of Organizational Commitment

Table 2

Factor loadings, means, standard deviations, reliabilities, and average variance extracted.

Construct		Item	Mean	SD	Factor loading
Job safety (JB); CR = 0.949; AVE = 0.823	JB1	My job is dangerous	3.050	0.969	0.898
	JB2	I sometimes think my job is unhealthy	2.920	0.922	0.907
	JB3	I fear for my health	2.960	0.961	0.901
	JB4	My job poses a chance of death	2.930	0.912	0.924
Coworker safety (CS); CR = 0.942; AVE = 0.845	CS1	My coworkers follow safety rules	3.580	0.938	0.911
	CS2	My coworkers keep work area clean	3.680	0.922	0.922
	CS3	My coworkers look out for others safety	3.640	0.953	0.924
Supervisor safety (SS); CR = 0.945; AVE = 0.775	SS1	My supervisor trains workers to be safe	3.620	0.915	0.889
	SS2	My supervisor enforces safety rules	3.570	0.957	0.895
	SS3	My supervisor praises safe work behaviors	3.510	0.978	0.89
	SS4	My supervisor rewards safe work behaviors	3.470	1.006	0.86
	SS5	My supervisor involves workers in setting safety goals	3.550	0.974	0.867
Management safety (MS); CR = 0.946; AVE = 0.779	MS1	Management provides enough safety training programs	3.650	1.01	0.887
	MS2	Management conducts frequent safety inspections	3.600	0.993	0.887
	MS3	Management investigates safety problems quickly	3.580	0.977	0.883
	MS4	Management provides all needed safety equipment	3.520	0.983	0.882
	MS5	Management rewards safe workers	3.450	0.985	0.873
Safety programs (SP); CR = 0.927; AVE = 0.81	SP1	The safety programs and policies in this organization are worthwhile	3.650	0.924	0.905
	SP2	The safety programs and policies in this organization are useful and effective	3.650	0.901	0.923
	SP3	The safety programs and policies are sufficient to prevent accidents	3.520	0.969	0.871
Affective commitment (AC); CR = 0.946; AVE = 0.897	AC1	I would be happy to spend the rest of my career with this organization	3.390	1.104	0.95
	AC2	I really feel as if this organization’s problems are my own	3.500	1.088	0.944
Continuance commitment (CC); CR = 0.948; AVE = 0.819	CC1	Right now, staying with my organization is a matter of necessity as much as desire	3.300	1.102	0.863
	CC2	It would be very hard for me to leave my organization right now, even if I wanted to	3.320	1.092	0.928
	CC3	Too much of my life would be disrupted if I decided I wanted to leave my organization now	3.230	1.108	0.921
	CC4	I feel that I have too few options to consider leaving this organization	3.380	1.066	0.911
Normative commitment (NC); CR = 0.957; AVE = 0.815	NC1	Even if it were to my advantage, I do not feel it would be right to leave my organization now	3.270	1.079	0.897
	NC2	I would feel guilty if I left my organization now	3.170	1.063	0.869
	NC3	This organization deserves my loyalty	3.570	1.068	0.894
	NC4	I would not leave my organization right now because I have a sense of obligation to the people in it	3.490	1.088	0.933
	NC5	I owe a great deal to my organization	3.560	1.082	0.92
Turnover intention (TI); CR = 0.913; AVE = 0.73	TI1	I have always considered leaving my job	2.500	1.248	0.912
	TI2	I am frustrated when not given the opportunity to achieve personal work-related goals	2.850	0.911	0.573
	TI3	I often dream about getting another job that will better suit my personal interest	2.690	1.222	0.942
	TI4	It is likely for me to accept another job at the same compensation level should it be offered to me	2.640	1.144	0.934