Analysis of factors influencing safety management for metro construction in China

With the rapid development of urbanization in China, the number and size of metro construction projects are increasing quickly. At the same time, and increasing number of accidents in metro construction make it a disturbing focus of social attention. In order to improve safety management in metro co...

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Published in:Accident analysis and prevention 2014-07, Vol.68, p.131-138
Main Authors: Yu, Q.Z., Ding, L.Y., Zhou, C., Luo, H.B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accidents, Occupational - prevention & control
Accidents, Traffic - prevention & control
Accidents, Traffic - statistics & numerical data
Analysis of variance
China
China - epidemiology
Construction
Construction contracts
Construction Industry
Humans
Metro construction
Quantitative analysis
Questionnaire
Railroads
Ranking
Risk Factors
Safety
Safety factor
Safety factors
Safety management
Safety Management - methods
Surveys and Questionnaires
Systems Analysis
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Summary:With the rapid development of urbanization in China, the number and size of metro construction projects are increasing quickly. At the same time, and increasing number of accidents in metro construction make it a disturbing focus of social attention. In order to improve safety management in metro construction, an investigation of the participants’ perspectives on safety factors in China metro construction has been conducted to identify the key safety factors, and their ranking consistency among the main participants, including clients, consultants, designers, contractors and supervisors. The result of factor analysis indicates that there are five key factors which influence the safety of metro construction including safety attitude, construction site safety, government supervision, market restrictions and task unpredictability. In addition, ANOVA and Spearman rank correlation coefficients were performed to test the consistency of the means rating and the ranking of safety factors. The results indicated that the main participants have significant disagreement about the importance of safety factors on more than half of the items. Suggestions and recommendations on practical countermeasures to improve metro construction safety management in China are proposed.
ISSN:0001-4575
1879-2057
DOI:10.1016/j.aap.2013.07.016