| dc.description.abstract | According to the statistics of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Ministry of Labor, the construction industry has the highest occupational hazard rate per mil among all industries over the years, indicating occupational hazards are long-term problems for the construction industry. The reason is its working environment is complex and thus, it has more potential hazards than the other industries. To deal with this issue, OSHA has promoted many safety systems and policies, and also analyzes historical occupational hazard cases for the reference of safety management. Academic research on construction occupational safety has also had abundant results aiming at lowering the construction occupational hazard rate. Moreover, foreign scholars proposed people-based safety (PBS) principles, proven to be an effective safety management approach, to promote safety behavior from personnel’s psychology aspect. If the PBS principles can be applied in making safety strategies and systems to consider construction personnel’s psychological feelings and strengthen cares for them, it is believed that personnel’s participation in occupational safety activities can be promoted, communications and relations between them can be improved, and the occupational hazard rate might be lowered. Therefore, this research is based on PBS principles and applies the principles to study and analyze four topics in the construction industry: academic research results of occupational safety, occupational hazard cases, outstanding practical cases, and research results of safety-related laws and policies, to understand and organize the current situations of construction safety management in conformance with PBS principles. Then, the strategies and ways of applying PBS in construction safety management are determined and proposed respectively. The effectiveness of the research results is validated through interviewing domain experts. The PBS application strategies and ways proposed in this research can be used for determining projects’ occupational safety management strategies in the future in order to promote the implementation of PBS spirits and safety participation of personnel, further reducing the occupational hazard rate. | en_US |