Yang, J; Liu, Q; Ye, G; Du, Q; Bai, L and Yue, H (2025) Mediating mechanism of construction noise on workers' safety behavior: Evidence from EEG data. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(10): 04025148, ISSN 0733-9364
Abstract
Construction noise is a critical environmental factor that significantly influences workers' psychological health and safety behaviors, which can lead to accidents. However, the mechanism through which construction noise affects workers' safety behavior is still unknown. Addressing this research gap, this study aims to examine how construction noise affects workers' safety behavior [safety compliance (SC) and safety citizenship behavior (SCB)] by considering negative emotion and cognitive failure as chain mediators. Using electroencephalography (EEG) experimental methods, this study collected workers' EEG data to measure their negative emotion and cognitive failure, as well as safety behavior data under low (45 dBA), moderate (65 dBA), and high (85 dBA) levels of noise. The results revealed that moderate (versus both low and high) levels of noise significantly enhanced workers' SC and decreased their negative emotion. Additionally, negative emotion significantly mediated the beneficial effects of moderate (versus both low and high) levels of noise on SC. Furthermore, it was found that there was a significant chain-mediating effect of negative emotion and cognitive failure on the link between noise and safety behavior (both SC and SCB). Theoretically, this study advances the understanding of the impact of construction noise on safety behavior from a psychophysiological perspective. Practically, this paper contributes to developing targeted intervention plans to mitigate the adverse effects of construction noise or amplify its beneficial effects.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | construction noise; electroencephalography; mediating mechanism; workers' safety behaviors |
| Index terms: | compliance, psychological health, environmental factor, evidence, safety behaviour, construction noise, mediator |
| Subjects: | occupational health and safety management, health conditions and diseases, dispute resolution, health safety and environment, environmental science, environmental impact, evaluation and assessment methods |
| Topics: | Research Practice, Sustainability, Health and Safety, Legal Issues |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCA |
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