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Table of Contents

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Executive Summary

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Introduction

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Senior leadership at Sun Coast has identified several areas for concern that they believe could be solved using business research methods. The previous director was tasked with conducting research to help provide information to make decisions about these issues. Although data were collected, the project was never completed. Senior leadership is interested in seeing the project through to fruition. The following is the completion of that project, and includes statement of the problems, literature review, research objectives, research questions and hypotheses, research methodology, design, and methods, data analysis, findings, and recommendations.

Statement of Problems

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Six business problems were identified:

Particulate Matter (PM)

There is a concern that job-site particle pollution is adversely impacting employee health. Although respirators are required in certain environments, particulate matter (PM) varies in size depending on the project and job site. PM between 10 and 2.5 microns can float in the air for minutes to hours (e.g. asbestos, mold spores, pollen, cement dust, fly ash), while PM less than 2.5 microns can float in the air for hours to weeks (e.g. bacteria, viruses, oil smoke, smog, soot). Due to the smaller size of PM less than 2.5 microns, it is potentially more harmful than PM between 10 and 2.5 since the conditions are more suitable for inhalation. PM less than 2.5 are also able to be inhaled into the deeper regions of the lungs, potentially causing more deleterious health effects. It would be helpful to understand if there is a relationship between PM size and employee health. PM air quality data have been collected from 103 job sites, which is recorded in microns. Data are also available for average annual sick days per employee per job-site.

Safety Training Effectiveness

Health and Safety training is conducted for each new contract that is awarded to Sun Coast. Data for training expenditures and lost-time hours were collected from 223 contracts. It would be valuable to know if training has been successful in reducing lost-time hours and, if so, how to predict lost-time hours from training expenditures.

Sound-Level Exposure

Sun Coast’s contracts generally involve work in noisy environments due to a variety of heavy equipment being used for both remediation and the clients’ ongoing operations on the job sites. Standard earplugs are adequate to protect employee hearing if the decibel levels are less than 120 decibels (dB). For environments with noise-levels exceeding 120 dB, more advanced and expensive hearing protection is required, such as earmuffs. Historical data have been collected from 1,503 contracts for several variables that are believed to contribute to excessive dB levels. It would be important if these data could be used to predict the dB levels of work environments before placing employees on-site for future contracts. This would help the safety department plan for procurement of appropriate ear protection for employees.

New Employee Training

All new Sun Coast employees participate in general health and safety training. The training program was revamped and implemented six months ago. Upon completion of the training programs the employees are tested on their knowledge. Test data are available for two Groups; a) Group A employees who participated in the prior training program, and b) Group B employees who participated in the revised training program. It is necessary to know if the revised training program is more effective than the prior training program.

Lead Exposure

Employees working on job sites to remediate lead must be monitored. Lead levels in blood are measured as micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood (μg/dL). A base-line blood test is taken pre-exposure and post-exposure at the conclusion of the remediation. Data are available for 49 employees who recently concluded a two-year-long lead remediation project. It is necessary to determine if blood lead levels have increased.

Return-On-Investment

Sun Coast offers four lines-of-service to their customers, including air monitoring, soil remediation, water reclamation, and health and safety training. Sun Coast would like to know if each line of service offers the same return-on-investment. Return-on-investment data are available for air monitoring, soil remediation, water reclamation, and health and safety training projects. If return-on-investment is not the same for all lines of service, it would be helpful to know where differences exist.

Literature Review

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Particulate Matter Article

Safety Training Effectiveness Article

Sound-Level Exposure Article

New Employee Training Article

Lead Exposure Article

Return on Investment Article

Research Objectives, Research Questions, and Hypotheses

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Research Methodology, Design, and Methods

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Research Methodology

Research Design

Research Methods

Data Collection Methods

Sampling Design

Data Analysis Procedures

Data Analysis: Descriptive Statistics and Assumption Testing

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Correlation: Descriptive Statistics and Assumption Testing

Simple Regression: Descriptive Statistics and Assumption Testing

Multiple Regression: Descriptive Statistics and Assumption Testing

Independent Samples t Test: Descriptive Statistics and Assumption Testing

Dependent Samples (Paired-Samples) t Test: Descriptive Statistics and Assumption Testing

ANOVA: Descriptive Statistics and Assumption Testing

Data Analysis: Hypothesis Testing

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Correlation: Hypothesis Testing

Simple Regression: Hypothesis Testing

Multiple Regression: Hypothesis Testing

Independent Samples t Test: Hypothesis Testing

Dependent Samples (Paired Samples) t Test: Hypothesis Testing

ANOVA: Hypothesis Testing

Findings

Students should discuss the findings in the context of Sun Coast’s problems and the associated research objectives and questions. Restate each research objective and discuss them in the context of your hypothesis testing results. The following are some things to consider. What answers did the analysis provide to your research questions? What do those answers tell you? What are the implications of those answers? Use the following subheadings to include all required information. Delete instructions highlighted in yellow before submitting this assignment.

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RO1: Determine if a person’s height is related to weight.

The results of the statistical testing showed that a person’s height is related to their weight. It is a relatively strong and positive relationship between height and weight. We would, therefore, expect to see in our population taller people having a greater weight relative to those of shorter people. This determination suggests restrictions on industrial equipment should be stated in maximum pounds allowed rather than maximum number of people allowed.

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Recommendations

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Particulate Matter Recommendation

Safety Training Effectiveness Recommendation

Sound-Level Exposure Recommendation

New Employee Training Recommendation

Lead Exposure Recommendation

Return on Investment Recommendation

References

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Creswell, J. W., & Creswell, J. D. (2018). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (5th ed.). SAGE.