Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0668220
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
An ethnographic investigation into the everyday work and communication cultures of public transport transit guards: reducing risk and injury. This research improves the safety of public transport for workers and passengers with flow-on benefits at local and national levels. The main health and safety risk transit guards face is attacks upon them, or injury incurred while intervening in assaults they witness. Conventional initiatives have not impacted greatly on injury rates but culture and communication change strategies offer potential ways forward. Strategies that reduce incidents confer clear community benefits and competitive advantage. Effective management of such challenges assists with the recruitment and retention of appropriate staff, improving profitability. Benefits include reduced costs of public transport, increased passenger load, and positive environmental impacts.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 06-2006
End Date: 06-2012
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $93,950.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Communication And Media Studies | Communication and Media Studies | Journalism, Communication And Media Not Elsewhere Classified | Consumption And Everyday Life
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
