Analysis Of Economic And Social Risk Factors And Spatial Difference For Work Safety In Yangtze River Delta’s Cities

Work safety is getting more and more significant to the development of economy andsociety to our country during this period. As the comprehensive strongest area inChina, the Yangtze River Delta also faces enormous challenges from work safetyaccidents. So it is urgent to monitor and analyze the risk factors of the cities’ worksafety.To carry out a study on risk factors of cities’ work safety based on regional economicsand safety economics, the panel data of the cities of the Yangtze River Delta in2010were tested, chosing11factors in the economic and social fields as independentvariables and the mortality of work safety accidents beyond100million GDP asdependent variable.Because of the series multicollinearitybetween the independent variables, the paperused the partial least-squares regression approach and significance test based onBootstrap.Then, by using hierarchical cluster analysis, the paper analyzed the reasonof the spatial difference of work safety among the cities.Finally, by combining theexperience of work safetymanagement from other nations with the empirical studymade, some management suggestions are made.The results of PLSRshow that there is a negativecorrelation of work safety risk withper capita GDP, per capita revenue, level of urbanization, density of population, levelof science and technology input, residents’ education level, and level of health sector,and that there is a positive correlation of work safety risk with the proportion of theadded value of secondary industry, the proportion of the employment of secondaryindustry, and per capita vehicles.