School of System Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jan 20;18(3):883. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18030883.
The construction industry is recognized as a high-risk industry given that safety accidents and personnel injuries frequently occur. This study provided a systematic and quantitative review of existing research achievements by conducting social network approach to identify current states and future trends for the occupational safety of construction personnel. A total of 250 peer-reviewed articles were collected to examine the research on safety issues of workers in construction industry. Social network approach was applied to analyze the interrelationship among authors, keywords, and citations of these articles using VOS viewer and CitNetExplorer. A knowledge structure map was drawn using main path analysis (MPA) towards the collected papers, which was implemented by Pajek. In line with the findings of social network analysis, five research groups, and six keyword themes were identified in accordance with the times of cooperation of researchers and correlation among keywords of the papers. Core papers were identified by using main path analysis for each research domain to represent the key process and backbone for the corresponding area. Based on the finding of the research, significant implications and insights in terms of current research status and further research trends were provided for the scholars, thus helping generate a targeted development plan for occupational safety in construction industry.
建筑行业被认为是一个高风险的行业，因为安全事故和人员受伤经常发生。本研究通过社会网络方法对现有研究成果进行了系统和定量的回顾，以确定建筑人员职业安全的现状和未来趋势。共收集了 250 篇同行评审文章，以检查建筑行业工人安全问题的研究。社会网络方法被应用于使用 Vosviewer 和 CitNetExplorer 分析这些文章的作者、关键词和引文之间的相互关系。使用 Pajek 对收集的论文进行了主路径分析 (MPA)，绘制了知识结构图。根据社会网络分析的结果，按照研究人员合作的时间和论文关键词之间的相关性，确定了五个研究小组和六个关键词主题。通过对每个研究领域的主要路径分析确定了核心论文，以代表相应领域的关键过程和骨干。根据研究结果，为学者们提供了当前研究现状和进一步研究趋势的重要意义和见解，从而有助于为建筑行业职业安全制定有针对性的发展计划。
