Understanding the relationship between safety investment and safety performance of construction projects through agent-based modeling

M Lu, CM Cheung, H Li, SC Hsu - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Structural equation modeling approach to studying the relationships among safety investment, construction employees' safety cognition, and behavioral performance

Y Han, J Li, X Cao, R Jin - Journal of construction engineering and …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
This study aimed to investigate the internal relationships between safety investments and
construction employees' behavioral performance with safety cognition as the mediating …

The role of the safety climate in the successful implementation of safety management systems

NK Kim, NFA Rahim, M Iranmanesh, B Foroughi - Safety science, 2019 - Elsevier
Occupational accidents have a significant human cost and negatively affect construction
companies' productivity, financial results, and public image. To control occupational …

Perceiving interactions on construction safety behaviors: Workers' perspective

L Zhang, Q Liu, X Wu, MJ Skibniewski - Journal of Management in …, 2016 - ascelibrary.org
This paper presents a systematic approach that incorporates structural equation modeling
(SEM) and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to perceive and verify causal-relationships and …

An empirically based agent-based model of the sociocognitive process of construction workers' safety behavior

B Choi, SH Lee - Journal of Construction Engineering and …, 2018 - ascelibrary.org
Workers' unsafe behaviors have a substantial impact on construction safety. To regulate
workers' unsafe behavior, construction practitioners have mainly used formal controls (eg …

An agent-based modeling approach for understanding the effect of worker-management interactions on construction workers' safety-related behaviors

P Zhang, N Li, Z Jiang, D Fang, CJ Anumba - Automation in construction, 2019 - Elsevier
Pervasive unsafe behaviors of construction workers are the primary cause of accidents on
construction job sites. The workers' safety-related behaviors are subject to a variety of …

Transforming inherent safety risk in the construction Industry: A safety risk generation and control model

S Choe, F Leite - Safety science, 2020 - Elsevier
To enhance the assessment and understanding of why accidents occur, several accident
causation models have been developed for the construction industry. These models …

Effect of safety investments on safety performance of building projects

Y Feng - Safety science, 2013 - Elsevier
The construction industry is increasingly reliant on the voluntary effort of contractors to
reduce accidents on construction sites. This study aims to investigate the effects of …

Perceiving interactions and dynamics of safety leadership in construction projects

L Zhang, H Chen, H Li, X Wu, MJ Skibniewski - Safety science, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper develops a Structural Equation Model (SEM) based approach to identify roles of
leadership in managing construction safety performance in a changing project environment …

The indirect effect of safety investment on safety performance for building projects

EAL Teo, Y Feng - Architectural Science Review, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Despite growing evidence supporting the positive impact of safety investment on safety
performance, little is known about how safety investment impacts safety performance in …