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Free SWIM Workshops

Heather Gold - Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Register now to attend SWIM training workshops. Some of the workshops are now nearly full, while others have too few registrants and may have to be cancelled. An additional workshop has now been scheduled in Barcaldine thanks to strong council demand (and organisational effort – with thanks to Barcaldine Regional Council!) for a central Queensland workshop.

 

The Mount Isa Workshop has now been postponed to Thursday 21 July, because of the small number of registered councils. Please let us know as soon as possible if you are interested in attending the new Mount Isa workshop.

 


Please email your registrations to pmorgan@qldwater.com.au, stating name(s), organisation and which training session you wish to attend. Registration is closing this Friday 1 July, 2011. 

 


The scheduled dates and locations are as follows:

    29 June           Brisbane (registrations closed)

    4 July             Mount Isa (POSTPONED)

    8 July             Cairns (Nearly Full)

    11 July           Rockhampton (FULL)

    14 July            Toowoomba

    19 July            Brisbane – training session for small service providers.

    21 July           Mount Isa (NEW)

    25 July           Barcaldine (NEW)

 


If insufficient registrations are received for these sessions, they cannot be conducted, so please let us know as soon as possible. All qldwater members are welcome to attend any of the sessions but please note that the 19 July Brisbane session has been designed exclusively to meet the needs of small service providers.


This year, SWIM training will cover:

  1. SWIM data submission procedures
  2. SWIM Quality Control Tools (New)
  3. SWIM historic data submission (New)
  4. BoM data submission – additional procedures for BoM users only

 

Feel free to email any questions or comments to pmorgan@qldwater.com.au.

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Comparative Reports and Water Industry Public Benchmarking

Tad Jelonek - Wednesday, June 22, 2011

SWIM comparative reports are now available on the SWIM website as confidential reports for each service provider that has submitted data in the past year. Indicators for individual Service Providers are compared with median values from utilities in the same region, those with a similar soil type, similar size and all service providers together. Service Providers can also see individual data for each of their schemes which provides a more useful measure of performance.

 

For the first time this year, data for selected indicators are also presented as graphs for simple visualisation and internal reporting. These graphs show individual council data with comparisons to medians and 10th and 90th percentiles of other similar service providers.

 

This year we are also inviting councils to volunteer to be part of the pilot project for public reporting of selected indicators. Public reporting is common for large service providers in Queensland and is present in most other Australian jurisdictions. This year specific data from SWIM will be collated in a public report that identifies performance of specific service providers that have agreed to take part in the pilot 'opt-in report'. Public reporting will be expanded in future years.
 

 

To assist service providers to decide whether they wish to opt-in to this year's pilot program, the types of data proposed to be included in the public report are provided as a sample in the final worksheet of the comparative report. Please view this data for your Service Providers and let us know whether your organisation wishes to be an industry leader and opt-in for this pilot year by contacting rfearon@qldwater.com.au.
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