Abstract:

Safety integrity is paid much attention and applied into use of in many industries, but the evaluation of safety integrity in mining industry was not well. The aim of the safety integrity scale is to master the safety integrity state of enterprises and provide advices to improve their level of safety integrity by doing survey of such state of mining enterprises. By item selection and reliability and validity analysis, a safety integrity scale including 4 dimensions and 20 elements was finally established, which is based on safety culture elements and safety conceptions. When put into practice in a mining enterprise, the scale is proved to exert the function of judging enterprise’s safety integrity level by marking safety integrity quantitatively. The scale provides a unified measurement tools for the measurement and comparison of the safety integrity within and between enterprises. Targeted safety integrity recommendations for improvement may be made according to measured results, which provide evidence to enhance safety integrity status.

Key words: Mining enterprise, safety integrity, survey scale, establishment, application