Management
Part One
Introduction
In the past few decades, the technology advancement drastically revolutionized the electrical lighting sector. The changes have primarily focused on both climatic effects and efficiency in varying environments. The most decorated milestone in the advancement in technologies in the electrical system is the development of light-emitting diode (LED). The report evaluates the importance of adopting the LED lighting systems in replacing the outdated fluorescent lights. The two lighting systems basically offer diversified characteristics in terms of photometrical and electric performance (MyLEDLightingGuide, 2011).
The main objective of the paper is to establish a comprehensive, cost benefit analysis that quantifies the adoption of LED lighting system. The organization priority is to ensure they implement the most cost effective designs in their lighting system that should complement the roles of workers. Different studies have shown that better lighting increases the effectiveness of workers with at least 3%. The report explains the justifiable terms that compare the benefits enhanced with installing new lighting systems in comparison with the performance.
The report contains a substantial background on the ongoing cost of the fluorescent lighting and how they are hindering the organization’s operations. The part concentrates on the contrast between LED lights and fluorescent lights that will trigger the replacement. The report has also evaluated the specific standards that are legalised in the Australian government in order to enhance the compliance nature. The part that executes the objective of the paper is a cost benefit analysis which evaluates the feasibility of options that allow LED lights to replace the outdated fluorescent lights. The part demonstrates the analysis through table that is well illustrated. The recommendations systematically outlined in the paper are structured in accordance with the SMART principle.
Background
There are various issues that make the lighting system an important aspect in the department. The issues include creation of a safe area, establishing an aesthetic and pleasant vision and saving of energy. The presence of effective lighting in the department correlates direct with; easy reading, reduction of errors and eye strains, and psychological well being especially in the health context. The health sector requires advanced accuracy thus requiring best judgement when it comes to lighting system. The lighting system in the department creates the following priorities in ensuring the objective of the health organization. First, it enhances the employee’s productivity since they get physical satisfaction from the lighting systems. Second, they reduce additional headache to patients that are associated with poor lighting in the sector. Lastly, efficient lighting systems enhance the image of the organization leading boosting profitability of the organization.
The lighting systems contain two significance characteristics that facilitate their functions. The first characteristic is the Lumen, and it entails the quantity of light that is emitted by the source towards a given surface. Different sources of lights emit different value of luminous influx. The department is currently using the fluorescent lighting system that contains 50 fixtures of 2 T8 tubes. The department contains fluorescent lamp that contains 2,400 Lumens. The department is considering replacing the fluorescent lighting system with the LED lights. The LED light source on the other hand emits 1,600 Lumens, thus making it the preferred replacement. The second characteristic is explained is the Lux and it entails the measurement of direct illumination on the surface area that is normally one square meter. In comparison, one quantity of lux can be converted to one lumen per meters squared. Generally the recommended lighting for the working interior like the department is 300-400 luminances (Chin & Sapar, 2012).
The technical comparisons that are developed between LED and florescent relates to factors such as power, energy consumption and operating currents. Both contain inbuilt future of eight T8 lighting tube. The fluorescent tubes illuminate 0.59 to 0.69 as compared to 0.93 to 0.99 in the LED tubes. The factor demonstrates that the LED lighting has superior power factor performances as compared to the fluorescent lighting thus making it the preferred lighting to be administered in the department. The other aspect that contrast shows that there are two lighting system is the photometry comparison. It explains the quality of luminaries displayed by the luminous flux and the luminance intensity. The measurement of the two shows that LED tubes have high luminance as compared to the fluorescent tubes. The factor demonstrates the contrast that triggers the replacement of the fluorescent lighting systems with the LED lights (Azevedo & Morgan, 2009).
The department requires interior lighting that should be available for their operations from 7am to 11pm every day. The interior lighting in the Australia has specific standards and codes that must be taken in consideration in designing a lighting system. The standards are meant to provide a useful guideline in creating specific and mandatory requirement for the systems. The performance standards apply to both manufacturing and construction areas where the operation is undertaken. The LED lights have specific requirements in their manufacturing industry that is meant to facilitate their effectiveness. In the year 2006, the Australian government developed and implemented a mandatory legislation law guiding the maximum requirement for the power energy (Sai Global, 2009). The requirement included the maximum value of the lumens per consumed watts and also the watts per metre square. The standards were in line with classes of building and performance tasks of that lighting system. The department can be classified in the health industry, and the required interior lighting is 17 W/ m2.
The standards for lighting system are very important in the operation of a different organization because of the following reasons. First, they provide boundaries to designers when selecting what is appropriate for a particular building. The factor limits help the designers to prefer LED lighting for the department since it is a health organization. Second, they set baseline recommendation for the legal system. The factor helps in prosecution of those people who have worked contrary to the required standards. Lastly, it helps in the provision of recommendable environment that should enhance efficiency and effectiveness of a given organization. The standards and legislation that are provided by the Australian government are strict and specific in dealing with interior lighting systems in the hospital and medical areas. This factor makes the department to review properly the standards so as not to conflict with the standards (National Framework for Energy Efficiency, 2009).
Cost Benefit Analysis of LED Lights
The table below shows the cost benefit analysis of LED tubes and fluorescent tubes and shows why the department should adopt LED to replace the fluorescent tubes. The table is demonstrated under a life span of 10 years thus showing how the organization should benefit in the long run.
In comparison of the life span of the LED lights and the fluorescent lights, the hours that LED provides are five times more as compared to the fluorescent lights. This makes the first recommendation why the department is considering replacing fluorescent tubes with the LED lights. The cost of fixture lights is pretty much cheaper than the one of the fluorescent thus giving the LED bulbs an upper hand in replacing the fluorescent bulbs. In analysing the cost benefit analysis, the LED lights have more advantage in the long run since they do not have replacement cost because of their durability. In the table, the annual performance energy cost of LED tubes is $548, and that of fluorescent tube is $1,042. This factor shows that the department should adopt the LED tubes since it will help them retain a bigger margin of profit for the organization.
Conclusion
In the presented paper, there is a comprehensive analysis that implicates that LED lights have greater potential of replacing fluorescent lights. The main factors that facilitate the consideration of the LED lights include power energy reduction and cost benefits. The adoption of the LED tubes in the department will benefit the organization since its implementing the economic principle of SMART. In Specific, the department is required to certainly use the LED tubes and not any other tubes in replacing the fluorescent. In the measurable, the LED tubes are able to be measured in showing the difference with the fluorescent tubes. In achievable, the organization is triggered by good service to customers thus in should be motivated by the factor to achieve the implementation. In realistic, the cost benefit has shown that LED tubes are cheaper than fluorescent tubes thus it economically realistic to adopt them. In time-based, the LED tubes have proven to be better in the long run of the operations of the department. The implementation of the LED lighting systems should also include psychological experiment in order to determine the lighting quality, colour quality and the general perception of the department operations (Esch, 2009).
Part Two
Since it’s a 250 bed hospital, we were supposed to meet band three targets to show that our postoperative infection rate has decreased by 30%.the data presented by the graph shows that they have met the target. We, therefore, have been awarded $9000 for staff development. Therefore I am holding a meeting where we will discuss the plans on how to reinvest with the following;
- Professional development of individual staff personnel in their personal objectives.
This will directly impact the delivery of the staff as it should motivate their day to day operation thus committing to patient safety.
- Conference attendance
All the personnel staff will attend a conference where they will get varying advise on techniques to use to advance their operation. The conference is meant to uplift the effectiveness and efficiency of the general operations.
- A catered invent to celebrate our achievements
The climax of reinvesting will be followed by a celebration where different staffs will be awarded according to the role they took in committing to patients safety. This should act as motivation incentive that should allow overall agility and effectiveness by the whole project team members.
We have found that if we reinvest on our staff on the above ways, we will decrease the infection rate by 30% and thus be more committed to patient safety. Holding a conference will help equip our staff with the needed knowledge and skills on how to reduce postoperative acquired infection. In the strategy, we plan to hold a luncheon, a trip and gift hampers to motivate our staff to work much better and celebrate our achievement as well. Professional development will help enhance our skills, knowledge for personal development and career development so as to deal with postoperative infection (HISM Healthcare, 2014).
The infection rate is demonstrated by the graph below that represent the infection rate data for the 12 month period starting from April 2013 to April 2014.
The information presented in the above graph shows how the rates have varied for the past one year, but they have a significance overall decrease. In May 2013, the rate of rate of post operation infection detected was 26 marking the starting point. This had a small decrease of 15.4% to 22, and it further increased for the next 2 months to 29. In the month of September there was a drastic reduction of the rate by 20.3 and it reached 13. This was followed by a small increase to 15 represented by 9.1 %. This was followed by a significant decrease in the month of November recording 12 beds. The hospital recorded a similar rate in December 2013 and January 2013 with a rate of 6.3%. In the last three months, there was a gradual decrease marking the end of one year period at 3 represented by 2.1%.
The massive reduction of the number of patient’s beds in the hospital shows high commitment of the staffs thus reinforcing the objective of the HISM healthcare. The incentive to reward the performance will create a positive response by the staff, and we expect to increase our service towards the patient’s safety.
It is recommended that the hospital be advanced in size in order to accommodate bigger number of beds so that it can enhance commitment to patient safety. With the advancement of hospital incentives, the project team are recommended to target band four which have more than three hundred beds thus entertaining an incentive payment of $12,000.
Senior health information officer
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