ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
SAFETY IS ON THE CARDS AFTER SUCCESSFUL KTP PROJECT RGU is well-known for the incredibly strong links it has fostered with businesses across a wide range of sectors, local, nationally and internationally. These links provide many benefits to our staff and students, but also to the organisations we collaborate with.
A key area of achievement was to increase the understanding of which rewards and recognition practices, across multinational workforces, incentivise safety behaviours. In order to cater to a range of learning
One of the key strands to this industry engagement is the successful transferral of knowledge between the university and the organisations it works in partnership with.
Natascha, who had little prior experience working in the oil and gas sector but provided a wealth of knowledge in qualitative research, was delighted by the success of the KTP and the doors it has opened. “I think I learnt a lot from working with and engaging with another sector. We are always encouraged to be working cross-sectorally, but how does that actually work in the real world?
A recent Knowledge Transfer Partnership between RGU and Petrofac, which was awarded the second highest grade of ‘Very Good’ by a panel of independent assessors, delved into motivations for safe behaviour amongst multicultural workforces. The research project was led by Dr Natascha MuellerHirth, a Senior Lecturer in Sociology from the School of Applied Social Studies, along with KTP Associate and safety engineer, Beate Houette.
innovative playing cards, which help to consolidate the learning from site photographs and accident stories.
“I feel that this, and likely other KTPs at the university, provide something which we can take back into our teaching, so students at the university are benefitting.
styles – visual, auditory and practical – and overcome communication barriers, the team also developed training materials for working at height, including 20
“The KTP project has already led onto a new research grant for myself and the School as it has put me into an area where I have not been working before. This is something I don’t think I ever would’ve
