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Dual-Attitude Decision-Making Processes of Construction Worker Safety Behaviors: A Simulation-Based Approach

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  • Man Zhou

    (School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China
    School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China)

  • Xiancong Chen

    (School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China)

  • Lei He

    (School of Public Administration, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China
    Center for Social Stability Risk Assessment, Central South University, Changsha 410017, China)

  • Franck Aristide Kiswendsida Ouedraogo

    (School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China)

Abstract

Workplace accidents are of great concern in the construction industry. Most of those accidents are caused by unsafe behavior in the workplace. Many previous studies have analyzed the causes of workers’ unsafe behaviors, but few have investigated workers’ feelings of insecurity from the perspective of systematic psychological theory. This study developed an attitude–behavior–intervention feedback loop mechanism of construction workers and used the dual-attitude theory to explain the occurrence mechanisms of unsafe behavior. Using this mechanism, an active-intervention system-dynamics model and a passive-intervention system-dynamics model were designed and simulated. The coefficient of the system dynamics equation in the simulation model involved meta-analysis to combine the correlation coefficients of existing studies, which increased the sample size and improved the statistical test efficiency. The results show that an implicit safety attitude has a more significant impact on safety behavior, and the effect of an active intervention is stronger than that of a passive intervention. Based on these results, this paper presents some feasible suggestions to reduce the probability of unsafe worker behaviors occurring.

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  • Man Zhou & Xiancong Chen & Lei He & Franck Aristide Kiswendsida Ouedraogo, 2022. "Dual-Attitude Decision-Making Processes of Construction Worker Safety Behaviors: A Simulation-Based Approach," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(21), pages 1-18, November.
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