A System Dynamics Model of Prevention through Design towards Eliminating Human Error

Sun, Xinlu; Chong, Heap‐Yih; Fang, Dongping; Wang, Yanqing

doi:10.1007/s12205-019-0845-0

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confidence: 99%

“…, 2018) and increased schedule and budget pressure led to the pressure felt by construction workers at work (Goh et al. , 2012a; Sun et al. , 2019), and thus the production pressure led to work overload and unsafe behaviour (Jiang et al.…”

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“…However, compared to previous research, it also showed some resemblances. For example, when accidents happened, the organisation would increase efforts in safety training and then the commitment for safety from project managers (Bugalia et al, 2021); increase in safety commitment delayed schedule and raised pressure (Guo et al, 2018) and increased schedule and budget pressure led to the pressure felt by construction workers at work (Goh et al, 2012a;Sun et al, 2019), and thus the production pressure led to work overload and unsafe behaviour (Jiang et al, 2015b).…”

Section: Causal Loop Diagram Of Ambivalent Safety Attitudementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, organisational support, as the core dimension of the safety climate, has a direct positive impact on employees' psychology and can effectively enhance and improve employees' psychological state. Safety climate can also regulate the influence of personal psychological capital on safety behaviour (Sun et al, 2019). Recently, the safety climate was studied at both the project level and the crew level (Dov, 2008), and the collective tendency towards safety at the crew level was found prominently important for the construction workers' safety behaviour (He et al, 2020;Xia et al, 2020).…”

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Exploring construction workers' attitudinal ambivalence: a system dynamics approach

Zhang

Xia

et al. 2021

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PurposeThis study aimed to identify driving factors of safety attitudinal ambivalence (AA) and explore their influence. Construction workers' intention to act safely can be instable under conflicting information from safety management, co-workers and habitual unsafe behaviour. Existing research explained the mechanism of unsafe behaviours as individual decisions but failed to include AA, as the co-existence of both positive and negative attitude.Design/methodology/approachThis study applied system dynamics to explore factors of construction workers' AA and simulate the process of mitigating the ambivalence for less safety behaviour. Specifically, the group model building approach with eight experts was used to map the causal loop diagram and field questionnaire of 209 construction workers were used to collect empirical data for initiating parameters.FindingsThe group model building identified five direct factors of AA, namely the organisational safety support, important others' safety attitude, emotional arousal, safety production experience and work pressure, with seven feedback paths. The questionnaire survey obtained the initial values of the factors in the SD model, with the average ambivalence at 0.389. The ambivalence between cognitive and affective safety attitude was the highest. Model simulation results indicated that safety experience and work pressure had the most significant effects, and safety experience and positive attitude of co-workers could compensate the pressure from tight schedule and budget.Originality/valueThis study provided a new perspective of the dynamic safety attitude under the co-existence of positive and negative attitude, identified its driving factors and their influencing paths. The group model building approach and field questionnaire surveys were used to provide convincible suggestions for empirical safety management with least and most effective approaches and possible interventions to prevent unsafe behaviour with tight schedule and budget.

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“…By this way, improved efficiency will be ensured, operating costs and significant risks will be reduced and expensive protection practices will be avoided in construction industry [6,7]. Theoretically, prevention through design is the most effective approach to reduce occupational accidents at construction sites [8].…”

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A Research Study on Prevention of Occupational Accidents in the Construction Sector during the Design Process

Yaşar¹,

Gökuç²

2020

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Safety by design has recently become one of the most significant research topics. It is believed that safety by design will provide profits to the construction sector by improving efficiency, reducing operating costs, reducing hazards and risks, and decreasing expensive accident prevention methods on the site. The aim of this study is to determine the awareness of the safety by design in the Turkish construction sector, and to raise awareness of the importance among the professional stakeholders in order to anticipate occupational accidents at the design stage, and implement the accident prevention applications early in the design process. Because the construction sector is hasty and fast, pre-construction executions have always been perceived as a waste of time, and the issue of prevention through design, which is the subject of this study, also takes place in the pre-construction stage. Due to the fact that the work related to the health and safety of the workers takes time and creates financial requirements, it is sometimes perceived as unnecessary by employers. Particularly, small-scale construction companies, make investments on safety only to protect themselves from legal sanctions. In order to identify the awareness of safety by design among the stakeholders in the sector, the data required for this study were collected through a questionnaire. The results of this study show that although the sector awareness on safety by design has emerged, there is still a huge gap in terms of implementation. It will be possible to fill this gap by increasing the awareness of the designers (architects, civil engineers) and increasing the legal supervision and penal sanctions.

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Antecedents of safety behavior in construction: A literature review and an integrated conceptual framework

Xia

Xie

Griffin

et al. 2020

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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A System Dynamics Model of Prevention through Design towards Eliminating Human Error

Cited by 8 publications

References 44 publications

Exploring construction workers' attitudinal ambivalence: a system dynamics approach

Exploring construction workers' attitudinal ambivalence: a system dynamics approach

A Research Study on Prevention of Occupational Accidents in the Construction Sector during the Design Process

Antecedents of safety behavior in construction: A literature review and an integrated conceptual framework

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