This study involves the development and reliability evaluations of a checklist for measuring the state of housekeeping in industry. The instrument was tested in fifty-nine companies in the transportation equipment and machinery manufacturing sector in Quebec, Canada, each employ- ing between twenty and sixty workers. The checklist walk-through procedure usually required under thirty minutes. For test-retest reliability, a total of 121 comparisons were made based on visits made to the companies by one observer over the course of a year.
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