Safety performance and technology heterogeneity in China’s provincial construction industry

Kang, Liangguo; Wu, Chao; Liao, Xiuping; Wang, Bing

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2019.09.005

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“…Some existing studies have proposed a popular assumption that increasing safety investment can generate a better safety performance [ 13 , 32 ], which can be indicated by various indicators, such as the casualty rate and accident rate [ 6 , 7 ]. After investigating 40 construction projects in progress, López-Alonso et al revealed that the number of accidents in the projects is negatively correlated with the level of safety investment [ 12 ].…”

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“…In China, a total of 3843 fatal injuries were occurred at construction sites in 2017, which accounts for 34.3% of all workplace fatalities [ 5 ]. These high casualty rates reflect the poor safety performance in the construction industry around the world [ 6 , 7 ], which has become a significant public health problem. Therefore, it is essential to improve occupational health and safety as well as safety performance in the industry [ 8 ].…”

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Developing a Dynamic Supervision Mechanism to Improve Construction Safety Investment Supervision Efficiency in China: Theoretical Simulation of Evolutionary Game Process

Gong

Gao

Zhou

et al. 2021

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The construction industry suffers from poor safety performance caused by the joint effect of insufficient safety investment by contractors and inefficient safety supervision by the government because of the information gap between the two sides. The present study aims to put forward a new pathway to improve safety investment supervision efficiency and analyze the decision-making interactions of stakeholders under this new pathway. For this purpose, this study establishes a safety investment information system to eliminate the information gap between the government and contractors for construction projects in China and further develops a dynamic safety investment supervision mechanism based on this. Evolutionary game theory is used to describe the decision-making interactions among stakeholders under the current static supervision mechanism and the dynamic supervision mechanism proposed in this research. Moreover, system dynamics is adopted to simulate the evolutionary game process and analyze the supervision effect and equilibrium state of different supervision mechanisms. The results reveal that the proposed safety investment information system could facilitate the transition of the supervision mode from static to dynamic; the evolutionarily stable strategy does not exist in the current static penalty scenario; and the dynamic supervision mechanism that correlates penalties with contractors’ unlawful behavior probability can restrain the fluctuation of the evolutionary game model effectively and the players’ strategy choices gradually stabilize in the equilibrium state. The results validate the effectiveness of the proposed dynamic supervision mechanism in improving supervision efficiency. This study not only contributes to the literature on safety supervision policy-making but also helps to improve supervision efficiency in practice.

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Developing a Dynamic Supervision Mechanism to Improve Construction Safety Investment Supervision Efficiency in China: Theoretical Simulation of Evolutionary Game Process

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Gao

Zhou

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“…For the burgeoning progress in economy and technology in China, the investment on construction projects such as super high-rise buildings, subways and underground complexes are increasing at an astonishing rate. Accompanied by the considerable contributions the construction industry makes, the safety issue in construction projects has become a major concern [ 1 , 2 ]. According to the official report issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban–Rural Development of People’s Republic of China, 734 accidents and 840 deaths occurred in the construction process of housing and municipal projects nationwide in 2018, up 6.1% and 4.1% from the same period in 2017 respectively.…”

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“…Compared to other labor-intensive industries, the construction industry is more likely to breed safety risks. Due to the fact that the construction project is highly risk prone, the construction safety is of great significance to ensure the achievement of project management objectives [ 1 , 3 ].…”

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Developing Key Safety Management Factors for Construction Projects in China: A Resilience Perspective

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Yuan

Shao

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It is acknowledged that construction safety is pivotal to the project management objectives. Meanwhile, the concept of resilience provides an effective and pragmatic countermeasure to improve the safety management level of construction projects. However, the “resilience” has not gained considerable attention in the construction safety management system. In this context, the paper aims to develop the key safety management factors for construction projects from the resilience perspective. Firstly, the theoretical framework and key safety management factors of construction safety management system based on the resilience theory are proposed. The importance of each factor is then obtained by using the method of structural equation modeling (SEM). The results indicate that information management, material and technology management, organization management and personnel management would improve the safety and resilience of the project. Specifically, improving the resilience of information flow to strengthen the interaction among elements of the system can enhance the safety management level. These findings can be used as references for construction safety managers to improve the abilities of preventing safety accidents and recovering after safety accidents.

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“…In recent years, the numbers of construction safety accidents and casualties have remained relatively high and impede sustainable project delivery [1,2], especially in developing countries such as China that is experiencing unprecedented levels of urbanization [3]. In this regard, the factors that are responsible for the unsafe behaviors of construction workers attract increasing attention.…”

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Unpacking the “Black Box”: Understanding the Effect of Social Network Characteristics on Safety Behaviors of Construction Workers

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et al. 2020

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How to improve the safety behaviors of construction workers has dogged the realm of construction project management. Previous studies mainly focused on the individual and/or organizational factors shaping safety behaviors, while there is a dearth of research focusing on the effect of individual-organizational nexus (i.e., the network embeddedness of individuals within the organization). Thus, this study employs social network analysis (SNA) and multivariable regression analyses to explore the relationship between the characteristics of social networks of construction workers (i.e., degree, closeness, and betweenness centralities) and their safety behaviors (i.e., safety participation and safety compliance), considering the mediating role of safety communication. The primary data were collected from ten Chinese construction projects. The results include the following three aspects. First, degree centrality, closeness centrality, and betweenness centrality all exert significant positive effects on safety participation. Closeness centrality yields a positive effect on safety compliance in formal networks. Degree centrality has a positive effect on both safety compliance and safety participation, whereas the other two centrality characteristics exhibit no significant effect in informal networks. Second, in formal networks, safety communication plays a partial mediation role between closeness centrality and safety compliance and a full mediation role between degree and closeness centralities and safety participation. Third, in informal networks, safety communication plays a full mediation role between degree centrality and safety compliance and a partial mediation role between degree centrality and safety participation. This study provides new insights for construction project management in achieving improved safety performance via shaping the social network characteristics.

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Safety performance and technology heterogeneity in China’s provincial construction industry

Cited by 41 publications

References 37 publications

Developing a Dynamic Supervision Mechanism to Improve Construction Safety Investment Supervision Efficiency in China: Theoretical Simulation of Evolutionary Game Process

Developing a Dynamic Supervision Mechanism to Improve Construction Safety Investment Supervision Efficiency in China: Theoretical Simulation of Evolutionary Game Process

Developing Key Safety Management Factors for Construction Projects in China: A Resilience Perspective

Unpacking the “Black Box”: Understanding the Effect of Social Network Characteristics on Safety Behaviors of Construction Workers

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