UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECT OF CO-WORKER SUPPORT ON CONSTRUCTION SAFETY PERFORMANCE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF RISK THEORY: AN AGENT-BASED MODELING APPROACH
Authored by Tingting Ji, Hsi-Hsien Wei, Jiayu Cheng
Date Published: 2019
DOI: 10.3846/jcem.2019.7642
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Abstract
Co-worker safety support has been given prominence in manufacturing and
transportation field for its positive effect on individual workers'
safety; however, there is little evidence to show if such supporting
role of co-workers is significant in improving project-level safety
performance in construction workplace. This study adopts agent-based
modeling (ABM) to understand the effectiveness of two distinct
co-worker-safety-support actions on the safety performance of a
construction project. Based on the risk theory, the ABM model simulates
a construction site where worker agents reinforce steel bars with the
likelihood of suffering crane-related incidents. The results indicate
that both co-worker-support actions can significantly reduce the
occurrence of nonfatal incidents but shows little influence in fatal
incidents, and in reducing high-severity incidents, the action of
warning peers to leave the hazardous area has the same effectiveness as
reminding peers to wear Personal Protective Equipment. The present study
provides a fresh insight into the safety-related role of coworkers: not
only reveals how the local-level effects of co-workers' safety
assistance emerge the system-level consequences, but demonstrates the
effectiveness of specific peer-support actions on three levels of
construction safety performance, and thereby extends our existing body
of knowledge on co-worker safety support in the construction field.
Tags
Climate
Agent-based modeling
behavior
Management
Construction management
Construction safety
Co-worker support