Factors Affecting Safety Management in Building Construction-Psychological Capital
Abstract
With the rapid development of China’s construction, construction projects in our country both from the level and scale have walked in the forefront of the world, but the ensuing safety management problems are also increasingly highlighted, a large number of safety incident reports has long indicated that people are the main cause of accidents, and unsafe behavior of individuals accounts for at least 88% of all safety accidents. Therefore, how to effectively reduce and avoid the unsafe behavior of construction workers, reduce the occurrence of safety accidents in construction projects and thus improve the safety performance of construction production has become an urgent problem. Safety accidents are often caused by human safety behavior, and human behavior is bound to receive the influence of the psychological state, psychological capital as a response to the individual in the process of growth and development of a positive psychological state, is beyond the human capital and social capital, a core psychological elements, is to promote personal growth and performance enhancement of the psychological resources, the impact of the individual safety behavior, enhance safety performance have an important role. Based on the psychological capital theory, this paper combines the behavioral decision-making theory and the characteristics of building construction projects, using questionnaire analysis methods, then using SPPS and AMOS to analyze the survey data in order to obtain a comprehensive understanding of psychological capital. The results of this study will contribute to the enhancement of safety measures in the construction industry, ultimately reducing accidents and improving the well-being of workers.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/13536
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