Managing shift work to minimise workplace fatigue - A guide for employers
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Commitment - Communication - Consultation - leads to Effective fatigue and Shiftwork Management
1 Shiftwork and fatigue policy
- Obtain Senior Management Commitment
- Review legal and operational needs
- State employer and employee responsibilities
- Develop and draft policy document
- Review and redraft
- Implement
2. Review hours of work
- Outline business requirements
- Review skills, leave, training time needed
- Calculate real need for employees
- Fatigue assessment for planned hours
- Fatigue assessment of actual hours
- Implement
3. Risk management
- Establish fatigue risk content
- Determine risk assessment workgroup
- Identify fatigue risks
- Analyse and evaluate risks
- Treat risks in priority order
- Reporting
4. Train and educate
- Determine relevant groupings
- Assess current understanding and skills
- Develop programs for groupings
- Implement training programs
- Evaluate and update training programs
- Maintain training register
5. Monitoring and evaluation
- Identification of fatigue in people
- Personal monitoring
- No blame, non-punitive, day to day monitoring of how things are going
- Ongoing System Evaluation