Abstract
Many construction accidents occur in China each year, leading to a large number of deaths, injures, and property losses. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, little attention is paid to construction safety, resulting in severe accidents. To prevent construction accidents and learn to how address safety issues in future pandemics, this study proposed an improved STAMP (Systems Theoretic Accident Modeling and Processes) model to analyze the collapse accident of the Xinjia Express Hotel used for COVID-19 quarantine in China. Through the application of the STAMP approach, the causes of the construction accident and the relationship between various causal factors are analyzed from a systematic perspective. The identified causes are divided into five categories: contractors, management of organizations, technical methods, participants, and interactive feedback. Finally, safety recommendations are drawn from this study to improve construction safety and safety management in pandemics.
Highlights
It is well-known that construction is a high-risk industry due to the complexity of the construction and the strategic effects of its products [1,2]
Many construction accidents occurred during the pandemic of COVID-19
The conventional accident analysis is focused on the chain of events, since it has limited ability to overcome non-linear interactions among dynamic and socio-technical system components
Summary
It is well-known that construction is a high-risk industry due to the complexity of the construction and the strategic effects of its products [1,2]. According to the statistical analysis report released by the Ministry of Housing and Urban–Rural Development in 2019, there were 773 production safety accidents in house and municipal road projects across the country, with 904 deaths as well as a year-on-year growth rate of 39 and 64 deaths. Judging from the number of work safety accidents and fatalities in residential and municipal road projects across the country, safe construction should be further strengthened. The total number of projects in my country is rapidly increasing, causing many safety problems. Little research on construction industry safety has been carried out to depict the overall situation in recent years. There is very little research on how to prevent construction accidents in China and how to prevent safety issues in similar pandemics in the future
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