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Evidence shows that there are many work-related accidents and injuries happening in construction projects and governments have taken a series of administrative measures to reduce casualties in recent years. However, traditional approaches have reached a bottleneck due to ignoring market forces, and thus new measures should be conducted. This study develops a perspective of safety performance (SP) for construction projects in China and puts forward a conception of the safety information system by using several brainstorming sessions to strengthen the safety supervision of participants in the construction industry. This system provides rating information to the public, and bad performance contractors enter into a blacklist which will influence their economic activities. Considering the limited rationality of government and various contractors, this paper builds a reasonable evolutionary game model to verify the feasibility of the safety information system. The analysis results show that there is not a single set of evolutionarily stable strategies (ESSs), as different situations may lead to different ESSs. The efficiency of applying the safety information system (the blacklist) in the construction industry can be proved by reducing the government&rsquo ; s safety supervision cost and by enhancing construction safety at the same time.

Evidence shows that there are many work-related accidents and injuries happening in construction projects and governments have taken a series of administrative measures to reduce casualties in recent years. However, traditional approaches have reached a bottleneck due to ignoring market forces, and thus new measures should be conducted. This study develops a perspective of safety performance (SP) for construction projects in China and puts forward a conception of the safety information system by using several brainstorming sessions to strengthen the safety supervision of participants in the construction industry. This system provides rating information to the public, and bad performance contractors enter into a blacklist which will influence their economic activities. Considering the limited rationality of government and various contractors, this paper builds a reasonable evolutionary game model to verify the feasibility of the safety information system. The analysis results show that there is not a single set of evolutionarily stable strategies (ESSs), as different situations may lead to different ESSs. The efficiency of applying the safety information system (the blacklist) in the construction industry can be proved by reducing the government's safety supervision cost and by enhancing construction safety at the same time.

AbstractPhotocatalytic degradation of oxytetracycline hydrochloride (OTC‐HCl) in marine aquaculture wastewater and therefore the effects of factors on the effectiveness of photocatalysts are studied in this paper using Zn0.75Mn0.75Fe1.5O4/ZnFe2O4/ZnO under visible light and changing the molar ratio of Zn2+:Fe3+:Mn2+, calcination temperature of catalysts, hydrogen peroxide concentration, dose of catalysts, illumination time of photocatalytic and initial concentration of OTC‐HCl. The degradation of OTC‐HCl in marine aquaculture wastewater was optimized by orthogonal experiment. The best effect exists when the molar ratio of Zn2+:Fe3+:Mn2+ was 10:1:3, the calcination temperature of photocatalyst was 400°C, the concentration of hydrogen peroxide was 0.5 g/L, the dose of catalysts was 0.6 g/L, the illumination time was 2.5 h and the initial concentration of OTC‐HCl was 0.010 g/L. The degradation rate of OTC‐HCl can reach 80.18%. Zn0.75Mn0.75Fe1.5O4/ZnFe2O4/ZnO can effectively degrade the OTC‐HCl in marine aquaculture wastewater under visible light.