Enhancing Strategies for Improving Safety Risk Management in Fabricated Residential Construction: A Neutrosophic Approach to Minimize Hazards and Ensure Efficiency

Abstract

Safety risk management in fabricated residential construction persists as an important 
yet challenging task because of the inherent uncertainties, ambiguities, and complexities 
associated with construction projects. Traditional risk management approaches often struggle to 
adequately capture these uncertainties, leading to suboptimal decision-making. In response to 
this gap, this paper proposes a novel Interval-Valued Fermatean Neutrosophic Set (IVFNS)-based 
ELECTRE II method for improving safety risk management. The proposed method integrates the 
strengths of IVFNS, which effectively models uncertainty, indeterminacy, and inconsistency, with 
the ELECTRE II outranking approach, which provides a structured framework for ranking 
alternatives based on pairwise comparisons. A public case study from a real construction 
company is introduced, involving five fabricated residential construction projects, to demonstrate 
and analyze the applicability of different safety techniques under different choice factors. The 
quantitative and qualitative analysis demonstrate that our methodology can offer a new solution 
to advance risk management in fabricated residential construction.  

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14961543