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Understanding the Social Contagion Effect of Safety Violations within a Construction Crew: A Hybrid Approach Using
Huakang Liang1, Ken-Yu Lin2, Shoujian Zhang3
1School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China. hkliang5493@hit.edu.cn.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
|December 2, 2018
Summary
Understanding safety violations in construction crews is key. This study uses a hybrid simulation to show how social contagion affects safety, offering tailored interventions for different hazard levels to improve construction site safety.
Area of Science:
- Construction Safety
- Occupational Health
- Social Dynamics in the Workplace
Background:
- Safety violations in social groups are recognized, but their contagion effect in construction crews is understudied.
- Existing research lacks a comprehensive understanding of the cognitive, social, and organizational factors driving safety violation contagion.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and apply a hybrid simulation approach to investigate the social contagion of safety violations in construction.
- To identify key factors influencing safety violation spread and inform targeted intervention strategies.
Main Methods:
- Integration of System Dynamics (SD) and Agent-based Modeling (ABM) to create a hybrid simulation.
- Modeling cognitive, social, and organizational aspects of construction crew safety behavior.
Main Results:
- The study reveals that intervention strategies must be tailored to specific work environments and hazard levels.
- Social interactions are critical in moderate hazard environments, necessitating interventions to reduce contagion and address safety-productivity trade-offs.
- Low hazard environments require intensive management, while high hazard environments need proactive safety strategies supplemented by other measures.
Conclusions:
- A practical framework is provided for analyzing accident prevention measures and their interaction with worker/environmental characteristics.
- The research highlights the influence of hazard levels on the effectiveness of interventions against the social contagion of safety violations.
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