Abstract
DfS (design for safety) can significantly reduce the engineering safety risk, decreasing the economic and social losses caused by safety accidents. To introduce DfS in China’s subway engineering, and with the help of a literature review and semi-structured expert interview, this study sorted out 28 promoting factors (including policy environment, practice, guidelines and tools, and education four categories) and seven impediment factors to DfS implementation. Through 80 questionnaire surveys of staff from universities, research institutes, and subway development, design, construction, and operation companies, this study screened out 26 promoting factors and seven impediment factors to assess the relationship between the two types of factors. The research provides a reference for DfS implementation in countries that have not implemented DfS before, such as China.
Highlights
With the scale and pace of China’s urbanization continues at an unprecedented rate, construction is becoming a more critical investment in the fixed national assets in urban service facilities by industry.For example, according to the statistics of the National Urban Rail Transit System of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of China (MOHURD), by the end of 2016, there were$272.63 billion of fixed national assets in urban service facilities
Taking the subway construction as an example, according to the MOHURD, approximately 246 accidents occurred during the 2002–2017 period [2], which resulted in a large number of casualties and economic losses
The second section is about whether a certain factor can obstruct the implementation of Design for Safety (DfS) in construction industry (CCI), so we designed it as Likert scale questions
Summary
With the scale and pace of China’s urbanization continues at an unprecedented rate, construction is becoming a more critical investment in the fixed national assets in urban service facilities by industry. It is of the utmost importance to prevent or decrease safety accidents during the construction and operation stages. Research on Design for Safety (DfS) became a new direction for safety management [4]. With the promotion of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and construction industrialization, DfS, as a representative of “advanced prevention,” will be introduced, accepted, and promoted gradually in China. Introducing DfS in China (especially in CCI) and promoting DfS worldwide through the overseas projects of China’s construction companies, are an essential step in the implementation of DfS, and the most important thing is how to introduce DfS based on experience from those succeed countries rapidly. The research can provide a reference for countries or researchers interested in DfS
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