Study on Influencing Factors of Construction Workers' Unsafe Behavior Based on Text Mining

• Published in: Frontiers in psychology 2022-04, Vol.13, p.886390-886390
• Main Authors: Li, Ping, He, Youshi, Li, Zhengguang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: construction workers; influencing factors; network analysis; Psychology; text mining; topic model; unsafe behavior
• ISSN: 1664-1078; 1664-1078
• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.886390

The unsafe behavior of construction workers is the key cause of safety accidents. The accident investigation report contains rich experience and lessons, which can be used to prevent and reduce the occurrence of safety accidents. In order to draw lessons from the accident and realize knowledge sharing and reuse, this paper uses text mining technology to analyze the data of 500 construction accident investigation reports in Shenzhen, China. Firstly, a Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model is used to identify the unsafe behavior of construction workers and its influencing factors. Then, with the help of Social Network Analysis, the importance of influencing factors and the relationship between them are identified. The results show that weak safety awareness, operating regulations, supervision dereliction of duty, equipment resources, and inadequate supervision of the construction party are the key and important factors. It is also found that there are correlations between weak safety awareness and supervision dereliction of duty, between equipment resources and poor construction environment, between organization and coordination and inadequate supervision of the construction party, and between operating regulations and hidden dangers investigation. This study not only helps to improve the theoretical system in the field of construction workers' unsafe behavior but also helps managers to find the key control direction of construction safety, so as to effectively curb unsafe behavior of construction workers and improve the level of safety management.