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Assaad, R, El-Adaway, I H and Abotaleb, I S (2020) Predicting Project Performance in the Construction Industry. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Chan, A P C, Chiang, Y, Wong, F K, Liang, S and Abidoye, F A (2020) Work–Life Balance for Construction Manual Workers. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Firouzi, A and Khayyati, M (2020) Bayesian Updating of Copula-Based Probabilistic Project-Duration Model. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Gao, N and Touran, A (2020) Cost Overruns and Formal Risk Assessment Program in US Rail Transit Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Hacker, M E, Kaminsky, J, Faust, K M and Rauch, S (2020) Regulatory Enforcement Approaches for Mass Population Displacement. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Hasanzadeh, S, de la Garza, J M and Geller, E S (2020) Latent Effect of Safety Interventions. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
- Type: Journal Article
- Keywords: Risk compensation; Risk homeostasis; Risk-taking behavior; Risk perception; Cognitive bias; Fall hazard; Construction safety; Mixed-reality; Passive haptics;
- ISBN/ISSN: 0733-9364
- URL: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0001812
- Abstract:
While researchers have dispensed considerable effort in the past decades to reduce the risk of occupational injuries in the construction industry, the large amount of safety incidents occurring each year indicate that many of the safety interventions and technological advances have not fully achieved their safety goals. This fact suggests the possibility of a latent side effect of safety interventions, known as risk compensation. Since no study has empirically examined the risk-taking behaviors of workers as a function of the number and type of safety interventions in place for their protection, this research examined whether the concept of risk compensation could offset some safety benefits of protection equipment. An immersive mixed-reality environment (i.e., virtual reality and passive haptics) was developed to simulate a roofing activity. Then, combining real-time head- and ankle-tracking sensors with qualitative sources of data, the authors monitored the reactionary behavioral responses of participants while they completed roofing tasks under three, randomly ordered levels of safety protection in the mixed-reality roofing simulation. The results indicated that providing more safety interventions (i.e., higher levels of fall protection) produced a sense of invulnerability among participants. This false sense of security ultimately increased their risk-taking behavior by up to 55%: participants stepped closer to the roof edge, leaned over the edge, and spent more time exposing themselves to fall risk. Although this study used students as unskilled roofing workers, it provides an initial empirical understanding of how more safety protections might implicitly signal workers to take additional risks—an effect of risk compensation. These findings could significantly influence how the construction industry approaches the development and implementation of safety interventions to offset the influence of risk compensation.
Hu, Q, Bai, Y, He, L, Cai, Q, Tang, S, Ma, G, Tan, J and Liang, B (2020) Intelligent Framework for Worker-Machine Safety Assessment. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Hua, Y, He, J, Gong, J and Zhao, J (2020) Hazardous Area Risk-Based Evacuation Simulation and Analysis of Building Construction Sites. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Krechowicz, M (2020) Comprehensive Risk Management in Horizontal Directional Drilling Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Liu, C, AbouRizk, S, Morley, D and Lei, Z (2020) Data-Driven Simulation-Based Analytics for Heavy Equipment Life-Cycle Cost. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Liu, J and Lu, M (2020) Synchronized Optimization of Various Management-Function Schedules in a Multiproject Environment: Case Study of Planning Steel Girder Fabrication Projects in Bridge Construction. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Lu, W, Xu, J and Söderlund, J (2020) Exploring the Effects of Building Information Modeling on Projects: Longitudinal Social Network Analysis. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Martínez-Rocamora, A, García-Alvarado, R, Casanova-Medina, E, González-Böhme, L F and Auat-Cheein, F (2020) Parametric Programming of 3D Printed Curved Walls for Cost-Efficient Building Design. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Navon, R (2020) The Last Lecture: The Need for Civil Engineering Education to Stimulate Thinking Instead of Only Teaching. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Nguyen, P H D, Tran, D and Lines, B C (2020) Fuzzy Set Theory Approach to Classify Highway Project Characteristics for Delivery Selection. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Okonkwo, P N and Wium, J (2020) Health and Safety Management Systems within Construction Contractor Organizations: Case Study of South Africa. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Pan, M and Pan, W (2020) Understanding the Determinants of Construction Robot Adoption: Perspective of Building Contractors. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Raoufi, M and Fayek, A R (2020) Fuzzy Monte Carlo Agent-Based Simulation of Construction Crew Performance. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Song, M H and Fischer, M (2020) Generating a Daily Bill of Materials at Level of Development 400 Using the Smallest Workface Boundary. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Tomczak, M and JaÅ›kowski, P (2020) New Approach to Improve General Contractor Crew’s Work Continuity in Repetitive Construction Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Wondimu, P A, Klakegg, O J, Lohne, J and Lædre, O (2020) Experiences with Best-Value Procurement in Norway and the Netherlands. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Yu, T, Liang, X and Wang, Y (2020) Factors Affecting the Utilization of Big Data in Construction Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).
Zhang, X, Li, Y and Wu, D (2020) Developing an Underground Utility Occupation Index for Efficient Urban Utilities Planning. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).