کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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572000 | 1452903 | 2016 | 10 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• This study uses agent-based modeling to study safety performance on a construction site.
• We build a practical framework to investigate how safety investments interacting with other parameters.
• 134 questionnaires were collected as agent parameters used in the model.
• The developed model can identify cost-effective safety investments under different scenarios.
The construction industry in Hong Kong increased its safety investment by 300% in the past two decades; however, its accident rate has plateaued to around 50% for one decade. Against this backdrop, researchers have found inconclusive results on the causal relationship between safety investment and safety performance. Using agent-based modeling, this study takes an unconventional bottom-up approach to study safety performance on a construction site as an outcome of a complex system defined by interactions among a worksite, individual construction workers, and different safety investments. Instead of focusing on finding the absolute relationship between safety investment and safety performance, this study contributes to providing a practical framework to investigate how different safety investments interacting with different parameters such as human and environmental factors could affect safety performance. As a result, we could identify cost-effective safety investments under different construction scenarios for delivering optimal safety performance.
Journal: Accident Analysis & Prevention - Volume 94, September 2016, Pages 8–17