@article{ref1,
title="Understanding the relationship between safety investment and safety performance of construction projects through agent-based modeling",
journal="Accident analysis and prevention",
year="2016",
author="Lu, Miaojia and Cheung, Clara Man and Li, Heng and Hsu, Shu-Chien",
volume="94",
number="",
pages="8-17",
abstract="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. Against this backdrop, researchers have found inconclusive results on the causal relationship between safety investment and safety performance. Using agent-based modeling, this study takes an unconventional bottom-up approach to study safety performance on a construction site as an outcome of a complex system defined by interactions among a worksite, individual construction workers, and different safety investments. Instead of focusing on finding the absolute relationship between safety investment and safety performance, this study contributes to providing a practical framework to investigate how different safety investments interacting with different parameters such as human and environmental factors could affect safety performance. As a result, we could identify cost-effective safety investments under different construction scenarios for delivering optimal safety performance.<br><br>Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0001-4575",
doi="10.1016/j.aap.2016.05.014",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2016.05.014"
}