A Review of Game Theory Application Research in Safety Management

There are many heterogeneous roles involved in safety management. The behaviour interaction and strategic interactions among them will have an important impact on safety processes in the execution phase. Game theory is a powerful method for clarifying the influence mechanism and is currently experiencing rapid growth in operations, planning and management, as well as in safety management. To comprehensively sort out the current situation of game theory in safety management and finally find out the development trend of applying game theory in safety management. This paper reviews 57 related articles (2010-2019) surrounding game theory and safety management. The main results show that the applications of game theory in the research of safety management is helpful to find out the cause and motive force of unsafe behaviours. We find that currently, most researches are mainly in traffic safety, and researchers may point to food safety, construction safety, coal mine safety, electrical safety and other fields in the future. In addition, game theory plays a very important role in guiding the decision-making of stakeholders in the process of safety management.