The following article was written by Mr Johnson Ong (Associate Director, Office of Quality Management)
24 February 2011 was a special day where the NUS community of staff and students gathered at the University Cultural Centre to celebrate excellence in service quality, environmental sustainability, and safety & health. It is an annual event organised by the Office of Quality Management (OQM), Office of Environmental Sustainability (OES) and Office of Safety, Health & Environment (OSHE) to recognise and honour individuals, teams and departments for their outstanding contributions and accomplishments in these areas.
The guest-of-honour was NUS President, Professor Tan Chorh Chuan and the event was attended by more than 1,200 staff members including NUS senior administrators such as Deputy Presidents, Vice Presidents, Directors and Heads of Department.
The ceremony kicked off with the opening address by the Heads of the three organising departments A/Prof Tan Kay Chuan (Director, OQM),
Dr. Peck Thian Guan (Director, OSHE) and Ms Lina Goh (Acting Head, OES).This year's opening address had a refreshing twist with the three heads delivering their speeches in the format of the popular television game show - "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?". Dr Peck played a student who was answering a series of multiple-choice questions relating to quality, safety and sustainability themes related to NUS.
At the event, the following awards were conferred to individuals, teams and departments:
| Awards |
Award Recipients |
| Safetymation Award |
- Department of Pharmacy
- Department of Anatomy
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Dentistry
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| Safety and Health Improvement Programme Award (SHIP) |
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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| Outstanding VOICE Participation Award |
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| Departments with 25 or fewer staff members |
- Temasek Hall (1st Prize)
- Bukit Timah Campus Management Office (2nd Prize)
- NUS Graduate School of Integrative Sciences and Engineering (3rd Prize)
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| Departments with more than 25 staff members |
- Office of Student Affairs (1st Prize)
- Office of Housing Services (2nd Prize)
- Department of Anatomy (3rd Prize)
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| Annual Safety and Health Performance Award (ASHPA) |
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (Gold)
- Department of Pharmacy (Silver)
- Department of Chemistry (Silver)
- Department of Paediatrics (Silver)
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery (Silver)
- Department of Anaesthesia (Silver)
- Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Silver)
- Life Sciences Institute (Silver)
- NUS Centre for the Arts (Silver)
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| Lean Six Sigma Award |
- Office of Human Resources
- NUS Libraries
- Registrar’s Office and Computer Centre
- Office of Estate and Development
- Office of Environmental Sustainability
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| NUS Quality Service Award |
- Cheong Foong Keng (Champion)
- Foo Eng Tin (Champion)
- Syam Kumar Prabhakaran (Champion)
- Nancy Yeo Kim Mui (Champion)
- Haslina Bte Adam (Leader)
- Saba Eyah Bte Eni (Leader)
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| Inter-hall Environmental Award |
- Temasek Hall (1st Prize)
- Raffles Hall (2nd Prize)
- Kent Ridge Hall (3rd Prize)
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| NUS Service Class |
- NUS Libraries (Outstanding for Service Excellence)
- Kent Ridge Hall (Commitment to Service Excellence)
- Office of Alumni Relations (Commitment to Service Excellence)
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Adding colours to the event were the four finalists of the inaugural NUS's Got Talent competition. They tried to outdo each other with their hilarious skits, live band and light hearted musical dances. The audience was captivated by the team led by the Office of Student Affairs with their performance titled "NUS Spirit – You are the Magic!" which won the NUS's Got Talent championship. The 1st runner-up was NUS Libraries and the 2nd runner-up went to Comparative Medicine Centre and Kent Ridge Hall.
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