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

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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… Click to show full 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.

Keywords: safety; dual attitude; worker; intervention; construction

Journal Title: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Year Published: 2022

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