What is it about?
In this paper, 653 construction safety accidents in China which are fully investigated and formulated by a set of country-specific factors are used as the source data of potential causal relationships among the factors. By utilizing association rules a total of 13 main factors contributing to accident causation are explored, and 9 factors significantly impacting on the severity of accidents are identified. The discovered association rules offer scientific grounds for Chinese construction safety management and decision support. The novelty of this study is to present a different perspective during cause analysis in which the factors impacting the construction site safety and the consequences of construction accidents are revealed respectively.
Why is it important?
The high incidence of construction safety accidents leads to a large quantity of casualties and property losses due to the concentrated hazard sources, large proportion of migrant workers in low education level, frequent change of on-site workers, etc. It is therefore a vital issue of China to enhance the safety situation of construction industry and improve the safety mechanism of construction so as to promote the stable improvement of construction safety production.