News

Issue No. 46 - April/May 2009

Science award leads to risk payoff

Work safety expert Professor Drew Dawson, a winner in last year’s South Australian Science Excellence Awards, is commercialising another fatigue risk management innovation.

WorkAlert, a mobile risk assessment application, launches in April. Prof Dawson, based at the Centre of Sleep Research at the University of South Australia, has collaborated with NSW firm Alert Force on the rollout.

It’s Prof Dawson’s second major commercialization project. In 2008 his team won the South Australian Science Excellence Award: Excellence in Research for Commercial Outcomes for the FRMS safety management system.

“The Award reinforced the need to keep pushing ideas from the lab into the market place even if they seemed a little ‘underdone’,” he says. “We have improved the commercialization process by selecting, developing and nurturing our partners earlier in the development phase than is usual.”

Prof Dawson’s team developed the innovation.

Adelaide an...

The rest of this article is available to in-business subscribers.
If you are a subscriber, please log in - click here.

Established in 2001, in-business is South Australia's leading independent local business knowledge source. We offer subscribers:

• a high quality bi-monthly magazine
• password access to our complete archives online from Issue 1
• regular SNAPSHOTS eNewsletter
• optional listing in our magazine business services directory called 'the team'

in-business has become one of South Australia's best networking packages delivering readers untold business opportunities.

To subscribe click here, or to receive a free trial copy click here.