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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.
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