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Sun Coast Remediation Project

Michell Muldrow

Columbia Southern University

Research Methods

Dr. Senft

October 8, 2021

Sun Coast Remediation Project

Employee safety is one of the crucial initiatives required to increase employee performance, safety, and health. Regarding the foundation set by the health and safety director, the organization needs to establish the most effective techniques to reduce losses incurred by the firm due to employee injuries at work. With a focus on employee safety and welfare, the Sun Coast project aims at developing effective strategies that protect employees' health and wellbeing. Also, safety benefits the organization in terms of reducing unnecessary financial costs spent on employee injury.

Research objectives

The first project's objective is to determine the variation of respiratory complications during pre-exposure and post-exposure at the end of the remediation program. This objective helps understand the exposure that presents more respiratory risks than the other. The second aim is to establish if employees' absenteeism is attributed to injuries resulting from ineffective training. This second objective explores how inadequate or ineffective training increases injury rates of incidents, which contributes to workforce absenteeism (Gianino et al., 2019). The third objective is to establish whether standard earplugs are adequate to protect employees' ears if the decibel levels are less than 120 decibels. It helps in knowing the standard decibels for maintaining a healthy eardrum at the workplace.

The fourth objective is to establish whether the new training program is more effective than the earlier training intervention. It enhances the comparison between the two trainings to select the best one to implement in enhancing health and safety at the workplace. The fifth objective is to explore the variation of respiratory complications during pre-exposure and post-exposure at the end of the remediation program. Through this objective, the organization knows the exposure leading to more severe complications than the other. The last objective is to establish the existing differences in return on investment for all lines of service. It helps determine the existing gap of return on investment to make a good investment decision.

The other objective is to investigate the levels of respiratory complications before and after remediation program exposure; this will help identify the impact of the remediation program on employees' respiratory complications incidences. The last goal is establishing the effect of lost-time hours on the general organizational performance. This goal with help understands how lost time hours through sick leaves affect the organization's revenue and profits.

Good research questions and hypotheses are developed from identifying gaps and developing new ideas to fill the gaps (Cai et al., 2019). Additionally, research questions must build on the existing literature by recognizing its assumptions. Research questions progress from the known facts to the unknown statement that requires validation (Francis et al., 2017). Similarly, the presented research questions and hypotheses evaluate facts and the unknown factors to establish solutions.

RO1: Determine if there is a relationship between PM size and employe health program.

RQ1: Is there a relationship between particulate matter size and employee sick days?

Ho1: There is no statistically significant relationship between particulate matter size and employee sick days.

Ha1: The alternative hypothesis is the direct opposite of the null hypothesis.

RO2: Predict lost-time hours from training expenditures.

RQ2: Is there a relationship betwenn safety training expenditure and lost-time hours?

Ho2: There is no statistically significant relationship between safety training expenditure and lost-time hours.

Ha2: The alternative hypothesis is the direct opposite of the null hypothesis.

RO3: Predict the dB level of work environments.

RQ3: Is there a relationship between frequency ,angle in degrees, chord length, velociy, and displacement and decible level?

Ho3: There is no statistically significant relationship between frequency, angle in degrees, chord length, velocity, and displacement and decibel level.

Ha3: The alternative hypothesis is the direct opposite of the null hypothesis.

RO4: Determine if the revised training program is more effective than the prior training program.

RQ4: Is the revised new employee training program more effective han the prior training program?

Ho4: There is no statistically significant difference in mean scores between prior training and revised training.

Ha4: There is a statistically significant difference in effectiveness between the new training program and the previous one.

RO5: Determine if employee blood lead levels have increased.

RQ5: Have employee blood lead levels increased from their pre-exposure baseline measurements?

Ho5: There is no statistically significant difference in employee blood lead levels between pre exposure and post exposure.

Ha5: The alternative hypothesis is the direct opposite of the null hypothesis.

RO6: Determine if the return on investment is the same for all Sun Coast lines of service.

RQ6: Are there differences in return on investment between air monitering, soil remediation, water reclamation, and health and safety training?

Ho6: There are no statistically significant differences in ROI between air monitoring, soil remediation, water reclamation, and health and safety training.

Ha6: The alternative hypothesis is the direct opposite of the null hypothesis.

References

Cai, J., Morris, A., Hohensee, C., Hwang, S., Robison, V., Cirillo, M., ... & Hiebert, J. (2019). Posing significant research questions. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 50(2), 114-120.

Gianino, M. M., Politano, G., Scarmozzino, A., Stillo, M., Amprino, V., Di Carlo, S., ... & Zotti, C. M. (2019). Cost of sickness absenteeism during seasonal influenza outbreaks of medium intensity among health care workers. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(5), 747.