The New Path to Improve Construction Safety Performance in China: An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Approach

作者：Zongjie Pi, Xin Gao, Linyan Chen, Jinghua Liu · 发表于：International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 年份：2019 · DOI：10.3390/ijerph16132443 · 被引用次数：40 · 研究领域：Occupational Health and Safety Research、Construction Project Management and Performance、Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management

Evidence shows that there are many work-related accidents and injuries happening in construction projects and governments have taken a series of administrative measures to reduce casualties in recent years. However, traditional approaches have reached a bottleneck due to ignoring market forces, and thus new measures should be conducted. This study develops a perspective of safety performance (SP) for construction projects in China and puts forward a conception of the safety information system by using several brainstorming sessions to strengthen the safety supervision of participants in the construction industry. This system provides rating information to the public, and bad performance contractors enter into a blacklist which will influence their economic activities. Considering the limited rationality of government and various contractors, this paper builds a reasonable evolutionary game model to verify the feasibility of the safety information system. The analysis results show that there is not a single set of evolutionarily stable strategies (ESSs), as different situations may lead to different ESSs. The efficiency of applying the safety information system (the blacklist) in the construction industry can be proved by reducing the government's safety supervision cost and by enhancing construction safety at the same time.