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Modified accident causation model for highway construction accidents (ACM-HC)

Ruipeng Tong (School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology – Beijing, Beijing, China)
Hui Zhao (School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology – Beijing, Beijing, China)
Na Zhang (School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology – Beijing, Beijing, China)
Hongwei Li (School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology – Beijing, Beijing, China)
Xiaolong Wang (School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology – Beijing, Beijing, China)
Hongqing Yang (Research Institute of Highway, Ministry of Transport, Beijing, China)

Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

ISSN: 0969-9988

Article publication date: 20 October 2020

Issue publication date: 2 November 2021

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to establish a modified accident causation model for highway construction accidents (ACM-HC) and describe the establishment process of the ACM-HC.

Design/methodology/approach

Based on the 2–4 Model, a framework of the ACM-HC was constructed, and the accident causal factors (CF) were extracted from four aspects of human, material, environment and management. In addition, association rule mining (ARM) was introduced to analyze accident investigation reports to obtain the interrelationships between the factors. Based on the framework, factors and ARM results, the ACM-HC was established. Finally, the ACM-HC was verified with a tunnel collapse accident.

Findings

Both the external and internal causes of contractor cause accidents. The flaws of safety management of other stakeholders are external causes. In terms of the internal causes, there are four stages: direct causes, indirect causes, radical causes and root causes. More specifically, the direct causes refer to the unsafe acts and the unsafe conditions; ineffective safety supervision and poor individual factors of frontline workers constitute the indirect causes; the radical causes lie in the flaws of construction procedures and technical schemes; the root causes are related to the poor individual factors of decision makers and managers.

Originality/value

The ACM-HC expresses the causes, sequence and mechanism of highway construction accidents in a visual way. In addition, this study describes a process of using a qualitative–quantitative hybrid approach to establish a modified ACM, which provides a different perspective for the establishment of an ACM.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51674268); National Key Research and Development Program (2017YFC0805301).

Citation

Tong, R., Zhao, H., Zhang, N., Li, H., Wang, X. and Yang, H. (2021), "Modified accident causation model for highway construction accidents (ACM-HC)", Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, Vol. 28 No. 9, pp. 2592-2609. https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-07-2020-0530

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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