TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Understanding the effect of co-worker support on construction safety performance from the perspective of risk theory: an agent-based modeling approach
JO  - Journal of civil engineering and management
A1  - Ji, Tingting
A1  - Wei, Hsi-Hsien
A1  - Chen, Jiayu
SP  - 132
EP  - 144
VL  - 25
IS  - 2
N2  - 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.     Keyword : agent-based modeling, construction safety, construction management, co-worker support<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1392-3730
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/jcem.2019.7642
ID  - ref1
ER  -