A new window through which to look at safety culture surveys: a case study at Arrow Energy

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Zaunbrecher ◽  
Lisa Mealiff
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
High Response Rate ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Industry Group

This paper provides a case study of applying a different approach to executing a safety culture survey. Arrow Energy (Arrow) completed the Safer Together Safety Culture Survey, with an excellent participation rate of 90% of total employees. There were indications from other Safer Together member companies that the typical response rate when the survey was emailed out was 30%. Arrow took the approach to undertake the survey ‘live’, where each team manager or supervisor facilitated the team session; this approach was fundamental to achieving a high response rate. A total of 33 separate team sessions were undertaken, which enabled team-specific results. The survey technique and application was provided by Safer Together, a not-for-profit industry group representing the Queensland coal seam gas industry. The intent is to have all Safer Together member companies undertake the survey so that industry-wide benchmarking can be carried out. The survey was completed by each team all together in one room, and the consolidated results for the team were available as soon as all participants had completed all survey questions, which took ~30 min. The benefits of the Safer Together tool, and live participation compared with online, included: ▪ Visible safety leadership demonstrated by the team manager/supervisor ▪ Team-specific results generated allowing meaningful immediate discussion and follow-up actions ▪ Three layers of organisation results available including everyone, supervisors and managers ▪ Visibility of ‘Most impactful behaviours’ that need improvement ▪ Generation of comments by the participating teams, visible during session as free text. Overall it was a very meaningful exercise shining a light on key areas the employees believe need to be addressed including: ▪ Planning ▪ More effective learning from incidents ▪ Making the Arrow HSE Management System more accessible and available in relevant bite-sized pieces. The consolidated results indicate that Arrow has a maturing safety culture.

scholarly journals Clinicians perceptions of a telemedicine system: a mixed method study of Makassar City, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dea Indria ◽  
Mohannad Alajlani ◽  
Hamish S F Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Telemedicine System ◽  
Internet Connectivity ◽  
Primary Care Clinics ◽  
System A ◽  
Main Barrier

Abstract Background This case study in Makassar City, Indonesia aims to investigate the clinicians’ perceptions, including both satisfaction and barriers in using telemedicine in a large, established program which supported 3974 consultations in 2017. Methods A mixed methodology was used in this research utilizing a questionnaire with 12 questions, and semi-structured interviews. A purposeful sample of clinicians using the telemedicine system at the 39 primary care clinics in Makassar City were surveyed. A total of 100 clinicians participated in this study. All of them completed the questionnaires (76.9% response rate) and 15 of them were interviewed. Results The result showed that 78% of the clinicians were satisfied with the telemedicine system. In free text responses 69% said that telemedicine allowed quicker diagnosis and treatment, 47% said poor internet connectivity was a significant obstacle in using the system, and 40% suggested improvement to the infrastructure including internet connection and electricity. Conclusion Overall, the clinicians were satisfied with the system, with the main benefit of rendering the diagnosis faster and easier for patients. However, poor internet connectivity was indicated as the main barrier. Most of the clinicians suggested improving the infrastructure especially the internet network.

Re-designing A Practice Test Into A Game

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 1234-1236
Author(s):  
Hung-Tao Chen ◽  
Michael Lee
Keyword(s):  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Student Participation ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
Voluntary Participation ◽  
Practice Test ◽  
Effective Learning

Practice testing is an effective learning strategy, but it can lead to increased test anxiety and often has low voluntary participation rate. This paper describes a case study on the effects of a re-designed practice test using game-like elements. The results indicate that the gamified practice test had a high student participation rate and showed improved test performance.

Benefit Corporations Approach to Environmental, Social and Governance Disclosure: A Focus on Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Sciarelli ◽  
Silvia Cosimato ◽  
Giovanni Landi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Corporate Structure ◽  
New Approach ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Benefit Corporation ◽  
Benefit Corporations ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Governance Disclosure

AbstractOver the last decades, Benefit Corporations arouse as a new corporate structure, alternative to traditional ones and pointing to offer a new approach to the management of business and sustainability issues. These companies' activities are statutory aimed at bridging for-profit and no-profit activities; thus, they intentionally and statutory pursue economic purposes together with social and environmental ones, to create a positive impact on economy, society and environment. Even though, Italian and other national laws set some specific disclosure duties for Benefit Corporations, especially in terms of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues, the literature still calls for further research on the topic. Therefore, this paper is aimed at contributing to bridge this gap, investigating the way Italian Benefit Corporations approach ESG disclosure. To this end, an exploratory analysis has been conducted, implementing a qualitative method, based on a multiple case study strategy. Even though the descriptive nature of the study, the achieved findings pointed out that the Benefit Corporation structure not necessarily implies a better approach to ESG.

scholarly journals International Industrial Internship: A Case Study from a Japanese Engineering University Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 156
Author(s):  
Wai Kian Tan ◽  
Minoru Umemoto
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Students ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
Japanese Students ◽  
International Internship ◽  
Rapport Building ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
International Internships ◽  
Internship Programs

In this globalization-focused era, the demand for globalized engineers in the creation of borderless societies is increasing. Despite the initiatives by the Japanese government to promote internalization through increasing the intake of foreign students, the exposures gained by the Japanese students from these programs are minimal. For years, internship has been used globally as a platform for training and educating future engineers, but only a few studies have examined the proactive transformation from domestic to international internship. International internships overseas offer a completely new dimension of experiences when carried out in multicultural environments. This article reports and offers evidence of a Japanese engineering university’s rapid global internship reform strategy toward the expansion of international internships in Malaysia. This paper provides insights into the process, from initial setup to implementation of the internship program covering all the necessary preparation and support. From the establishment of an overseas collaboration base and rapport building with hosting industries, the systematic steps taken are reported. Regarding the internship program, feedback from Japanese engineering students who completed their internships show improved satisfaction due to continuous improvement of the internship program with progressing years. It was also discovered that the low participation rate in overseas internship by Japanese students is not due to their inward-looking temperament, but due to the lack of internship program availability that is administered with sufficient preparation enabling them to challenge themselves in a new environment. The challenges encountered in the program, and the sustainable improvements made in alignment with sustainable development goals toward equitable quality education and promotion of lifelong learning are also stated. In this paper, the future perspectives and outlook of internships are also described considering today’s rapid technological advancements and the fast-changing needs of industries, which require future internship programs to have flexible approaches and ideologies.

scholarly journals Creating a Market for Disability Specific Housing on Indigenous Land: A Case Study from Yarrabah, Australia

Buildings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Kate Sarkodee ◽  
Andrew Martel
Keyword(s):  
Housing Stock ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Early Assessment ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Housing Investment ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Disability Accommodation ◽  
Private Investors

Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme Specialist Disability Accommodation (NDIS SDA) program anticipates new, disability specific, housing stock being built by private investors incentivized by cash payments and rental income. To date, very few new SDA dwellings have been constructed and the majority of the research and analysis of the program’s potential has been in the context of apartment construction in major capital city markets in Australia. This paper uses a hypothetical case study of building SDA accommodation in a discrete regional Indigenous community, Yarrabah, in Queensland. It investigates underlying assumptions within the scheme, particularly around the relationship of land to investment outcomes, as well as cultural considerations. An important aspect is to test how effectively the design guidelines associated with the scheme translate into an appropriate built form that is culturally and environmentally appropriate in locations outside major urban centres. The results suggest that housing actors from the not-for-profit sector may benefit from the SDA at the expense of profit-driven, market-based housing developers, and that the SDA design categories offer limited flexibility for participants with changing care needs, potentially restricting resident continuity in occupancy and ongoing return on investment. The work offers an early assessment on the workability of the SDA in the context of housing investment in a new market for the private housing industry.

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