Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Safety climate is a theoretical term used by safety and personnel professionals to describe the sum of employee perceptions regarding overall safety within the workplace. Much debate still continues over the definition and application of "safety climate" as the term is often used interchangeably with "safety culture." This article will discuss various aspects of safety climate as a term of art, including its origin within the safety and management profession, various definitions, empirical development, common measurement methods and its validity and predictive value.