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

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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“…The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) delineates the determinants of unsafe behavior by elucidating the interplay between attitude, intention, and action [20], which underscores the pivotal role of behavioral intention in shaping conduct, with safety attitude emerging as a key predictor of workers' intentions [21]. Thus, workers with positive safety attitudes are more inclined to work safely [22,23], and improving the safety attitudes of construction workers is a key factor in curbing unsafe behaviors [24]. Past research indicates a reciprocal relationship wherein safety attitudes not only influence safety behaviors positively but also undergo changes in response to behavioral outcomes, thereby forming a feedback loop [25].…”

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“…These apers provide research ideas for the strategy research of this paper. Existing methods for studying decision-making behavior include Large Group Decision-Making (LGDM) [26], dual attitude theory [27], semi-structured interviews [28] and evolutionary game theory [29]. Evolutionary game theory can explain the dynamic process and state of group evolution in an event that changes over time.…”