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

Zongjie Pi, Xin Gao, Linyan Chen and Jinghua Liu
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Zongjie Pi: School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Xin Gao: School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Linyan Chen: School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Jinghua Liu: School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 13, 1-24

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: safety performance; construction industry; evolutionary game (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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