The Establishment of Cause-System of Poor Construction Site Safety and Priority Analysis from Different Perspectives

Construction site safety in China has aroused comprehensive concern all over the world. It is imperative to investigate the main causes of poor construction site safety. This paper divides all the causes into four aspects, namely the factors of workers, object, environment and management and sets up the accident causes element system based on Delphi Method. This is followed by the application of structural equation modeling to examine the importance of each aspect of causes from the standpoints of different roles related to the construction respectively. The results indicate that all the four aspects of factors are in need of improvement, and different roles have different ideas considering the priority of those factors. The paper has instructive significance for the practitioners to take measures to improve construction site safety in China accordingly.

Authors:

• Shirong Li
• Xueping Xiang

Keywords:

• construction site safety
• Delphi Method
• structuralequation modeling
• different perspective.

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