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Safety Innovation Team Programme (SITP)

The Safety Innovation Team Programme (SITP) is aimed at empowering NUS staff with the motivation to bring about improvements in some aspects of their workplace safety and health through teams that are modeled after the Work Improvement Team programme (WIT). Small groups of employees come together regularly to identify work hazards and propose measures to eliminate or control them. The focus of SITP 2006 is to encourage staff members to come up with innovative solutions to ensure compliance with new occupational safety and health regulations.

The objectives of SITP are as follow:

• promote job involvement and employee motivation
• enhance safety standard of NUS
• promote more effective teamwork
• improve safety and health communication within NUS
• strengthen management-employee relationship

The benefits of SITP are manifold. To the departments and faculties, SITP will:

• improve safety awareness among staff
• reduce lost-time accidents
• increase productivity and prevent accidents
• strengthen your management-staff relationship
• enhance the image of your department/faculty

NUS staff will also stand to benefit through:

• opportunity for participation in workplace safety programme
• promote self-development and confidence in your work
• encourage individual to give his best
• improve communication and teamwork
• enhance self-esteem

Five (5) consolation prizes worth $300 each will be awarded to teams that have produced innovative solutions that will eliminate or reduce workplace risk. However, the first three top prizes will only be awarded to teams that have put in place some degree of implementation of their proposal.

This competition is open to NUS departments and research institutes.

SITP Teams should have at least 2 to a maximum of 10 persons per team. They should preferably be from the same work area & face common safety problems.

Each SITP team within the Department, Research Institute should submit a single application.

The submission must be done by the leader of the SITP team.

SITP is organized based on the following fundamentals:

• Group-based activities
• Participation by all members
• Continuous process
• Problem-solving approach
• Projects must be work/workplace related

Inter-departmental teams are allowed but there must be a common area of work between members in the team. Safety committees can also take part in the programme.

The teams can work on one major project (or on several smaller ones) that leads towards an overall improvement in safety and health in their workplace. The projects must be proposed to the management in their respective faculties/ departments and the results should be measurable if possible.

Teams must have regular meetings that are minuted and OSHE will provide refreshment allowance for every meeting held. The teams will submit a report at the end of the competition and they will present their findings to a panel of judges.

Teams will be judged based on:

• Innovation
• Team organization
• Hazard evaluation and project selection
• Report and presentation
• Value of safety innovation idea
• Management support

Your project MUST strictly focus on areas related to Occupational Safety and Health. Examples of projects that you can do are:

• Chemical and chemical waste inventory reduction program
• Ergonomically comfortable
• Implementing housekeeping programmes
• Implementing programme to monitor safety performance in your department
• Project to improve air quality in your workplace
• Putting in place an emergency response plan in your workplace

Applications should contain relevant supporting documentation (photographs, reports, records, procedures, etc) to assist the judges in their assessment.

OSHE, on behalf of the judges, may require the DSC to provide additional supporting documentation.

The judge's decision is final and no correspondence would be entertained. The winning SITP project will be announced during the Annual Safety & Health Week, which will be held in February 2007. Winners of the Gold Award will be awarded the Safety Innovators Challenge Shield

Winners will be subdivided into:

• Safety Innovators Award - Gold ($2000 prize money)
• Safety Innovators Award - Silver ($1500 prize money)
• Safety Innovators Award - Bronze ($1000 prize money)

Application Procedures

Application forms can be downloaded here. Please ensure that you have filled in all necessary particulars required in the form. Endorsement from the Dean or Head of Department is required. This endorsement can be delegated to another academic staff by the Dean or the Head of Department. Please send back your completed application forms via internal mail to:

Ms. Lisa Lui

Office of Safety, Health & Environment

Deadline for submission: 31 August 2006

SITP Meeting Refreshment Claim Form can be downloaded here.

Programme coordinator : Ms Yvonne Teng (Email: oshtengy@nus.edu.sg, Tel: 6516 5966)

 View the presentation/reports of the SITP 2005 winning teams