Understanding the Effect of Co-worker Support on Construction Safety Performance From the Perspective of Risk Theory: an Agent-based Modeling Approach
Author(s): |
Tingting Ji
Hsi-Hsien Wei Jiayu Chen |
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Medium: | journal article |
Language(s): | Latvian |
Published in: | Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, May 2019, n. 2, v. 25 |
Page(s): | 132-144 |
DOI: | 10.3846/jcem.2019.7642 |
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 co-workers: 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. |
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