Abstract

At present, China’s engineering safety management has developed to a certain level, but the number of casualties caused by construction accidents is still increasing in recent years, and the safety problems in the construction industry are still worrying. For purpose of effectively reducing construction workers’ unsafe behavior and improve the efficiency of construction safety management, based on multi-agent modeling, this paper analyzes the influencing factors during construction workers’ cognitive process from the perspective of safety cognition, constructs the interaction and cognition of the agent under the bidirectional effect of formal rule awareness and conformity mentality model, and set behavior rules and parameters through the Net Logo platform for simulation. The results show that: Unsafe behavior of construction workers is related to the failure of cognitive process, and the role of workers’ psychology and consciousness will affect the cognitive process; The higher the level of conformity intention of construction workers, the easier it is to increase the unsafe behavior of the group; Formal rule awareness can play a greater role only when the management standard is at a high level, and can correct the workers’ safety cognition and effectively correct the workers’ unsafe behavior; Under certain construction site environmental risks, the interaction between formal rule awareness and conformity mentality in an appropriate range is conducive to the realization of construction project life cycle management. This study has certain theoretical and practical significance for in-depth understanding of safety cognition and reducing unsafe behavior of construction team.

Highlights

  • The construction industry plays an important role in promoting the development of the national economy (Zhou et al, 2015)

  • This study innovatively considers the influence of the two dimensions of rule awareness and conformity mentality, and studies the effect of them on the unsafe behavior of construction teams under different situation combination; On the other hand, it combines workers’ safety cognitive process with risk perception to study workers’ behavior decision-making, so as to enrich the research on construction workers’ cognitive psychology

  • Managers need to guard against workers with strong conformity mentality, pay attention to the role of psychological adjustment, create a good safety atmosphere through safety education, adjust and guide workers’ psychology, and control the occurrence of unsafe behaviors of the construction team

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Introduction

The construction industry plays an important role in promoting the development of the national economy (Zhou et al, 2015). According to the 2020 National Economic and Social Development Statistical Bulletin of the National Bureau of Statistics (China Statistics, 2021), the total added value of the construction industry throughout the year was 7,299.6 billion yuan, an increase of 3.5% over the previous year. The safety production situation in the construction industry is still very serious. According to a report from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China (Standardization of Engineering Construction, 2020), in 2019, Unsafe Behavior and Cognitive Process a total of 773 housing engineering safety accidents occurred nationwide, and 904 people died, a year-on-year increase of 5.31 and 7.62%. Why are engineering safety accidents still emerging one after another?

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