International Conference on Construction and Real Estate Management 2016
A System Thinking Analysis Approach for Construction Workplace Safety in China: An Example of a Simulation Model at a Site
Publication: ICCREM 2016: BIM Application and Off-Site Construction
ABSTRACT
Accidents, injuries, fatalities in construction workplace are important research issues in China. Construction safety management system (CSMS) is based upon related laws and regulations. CSMS is a complicated system which has various influencing factors. In order to have a more comprehensive understanding on safety issues, we need to bring up system thinking. In the present study, we developed a system dynamics model to deal with kinds of factors and simulate the change. There are many qualitative variables in CSMS factors which need be transform to quantitative numbers. We presented an approach which comprises how to extract the effective factors, variables transform, and the circulating model building process. Through a preliminary example model of construction safety site, we made up three subsystem to find the relation among accident rate and other factors. The simulation result showed the relation of accident rate and supervision, personal feeling, fatigue to verify the approach validity.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We thank State Administration of Work Safety for allowing access to their construction safety material and our research assistants.
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ICCREM 2016: BIM Application and Off-Site Construction
Pages: 351 - 361
Editors: Yaowu Wang, Ph.D., Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, Mohamed Al-Hussein, Ph.D., Professor, University of Alberta, Geoffrey Q. P. Shen, Ph.D., Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Yimin Zhu, Ph.D., Professor, Louisiana State University
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8027-4
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Published online: Aug 14, 2017
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