Construction safety knowledge sharing by Internet of Things, Web 2.0 and mobile apps: psychological and new institutional economics conceptual analysis

21st International Scientific Conference on Advanced in Civil Engineering "Construction - The Formation of Living Environment"

土木建筑工程

Li, Rita Yi Man^1 ; Chau, Kwong Wing^2 ; Ho, Daniel Chi Wing^3 ; Lu, Weisheng^2 ; Lam, Mandy Wai Yee^1 ; Leung, Tat Ho^1

RHB 307, HKSYU Real Estate and Economics Research Lab, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, North Point, Hong Kong, Hong Kong^1

Department of Real Estate and Construction, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong^2

Faculty of Design and Environment, Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, Hong Kong^3

关键词: Conceptual analysis;    Construction safety;    Economic geography;    Institutional economics;    Knowledge-sharing;    New Institutional Economics;    Psychological theory;    Safety knowledge;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/365/6/062042/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/365/6/062042

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The construction industry has always recorded a high work accident rate on sites. Many of these occur due to an asynchronous knowledge sharing problem. Some construction teams may only work occasionally on sites and may not be able to communicate to new teams at shift changes by the time they leave the sites. High-level subcontracting is another issue. The primary contractors may find it difficult to share safety knowledge down the line of subcontractors to reach the lowest level workers. The recent popularity in Web 2.0, mobile apps and the Internet of Things provides a new perspective on asynchronous safety knowledge sharing. Workers from different teams who never physically meet each other can now share knowledge easily by simple means. A natural starting point when conceptualizing the role of institutions in economic geography is to consider the constraints and incentives that affect economic action. This perspective, to a certain extent, coincides well with psychological theory which studies the factors that affect people's behavior. In this research paper, we study the construction practitioners' knowledge sharing behavior from 1) New institutional economic perspectives under the lens of informal institutions and 2) Psychology's perspectives such as Homan's proposition.