Fatigue Risk Management System
Best practice solutions to tackle shift work fatigue
Fatigue and shift work
A comprehensive Fatigue Risk Management System is vital if your operations require rotating shift patterns to cover variable demand.
Shift work fatigue in these environments can have a dramatic impact on health and safety, shift worker wellbeing and productivity.
optashift will work with you to develop a sophisticated Fatigue Risk Management System tailored to your organisation and workforce.
We’ll help you establish best practice processes and tools that go beyond compliance to ultimately improve working conditions and performance.
Shift Work Fatigue Experts
optashift Fatigue Risk Management Systems are developed by a cross discipline team of shift work fatigue experts that includes Chartered Human Factors specialists.
They are leading authorities on fatigue management for shift workers and former senior inspectors for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
The solutions we create with clients are shaped by decades of regulatory experience across fatigue risk assessment, fatigue policy development and fatigue management strategies within manufacturing, utilities, nuclear, transport, offshore and many other industries.
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Fatigue Risk Management System
optashift offer different levels of support, ensuring your Fatigue Risk Management System can be scaled and phased appropriately to align with specific fatigue management strategies, timelines and requirements.
Our solutions are structured around five key areas.
1. Fatigue Risk Assessment – Conducting structured audit and review of all aspects of shift work fatigue.
2. Fatigue Management Policy – Developing detailed strategy, operational fatigue policy and governance framework.
3. Fatigue Management Plan and Solutions – Designing shift planning and workforce management shift work fatigue control measures.
4. Fatigue Monitoring System – Establishing shift work fatigue risk tracking, KPIs and analytics mechanisms.
5. Fatigue Management Guidance – Building awareness, knowledge and providing tools to manage shift work fatigue risk.
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Fatigue Risk Assessment
Identifying where your organisation and shift workers may be exposed to shift work fatigue risk is crucial.
Our experts can conduct a comprehensive Fatigue Risk Assessment for you which provides detailed analysis, recommendations and action plan.
optashift use proprietary qualitative tools based on recognised good practice and inspection experience and can supplement these with a focused stakeholder engagement programme.
Our Fatigue Risk Assessment audits and reviews key aspects of shift work fatigue including:
- Shift pattern analysis
- Staffing levels (general and critical)
- Workload
- Workload balance
- Task analysis
- Hazard identification
- Physical environmental factors
- Employee impact and awareness
Fatigue Management Policy
Fatigue Risk Management Systems should be underpinned by a robust governance framework which spans fatigue legislation and regulations compliance, best practice, monitoring and ESG reporting.
optashift will help you develop fatigue management strategies that define your commitment, objectives, roles and responsibilities for managing shift work fatigue in a systematic way.
Our experts will also ensure you cascade this into a Fatigue Management Policy that clearly sets out key limits and rules to minimise shift work fatigue risk.
Examples of Fatigue Policy scope include:
- Working hours and rest periods
- Overtime deployment and limits
- Shift-swapping and self-rostering rules
- On-call/call-in or relief governance
- Breaks and break enforcement
- Fitness for duty checks
- Handover communications
- Embedding fatigue in incident investigation
Fatigue Management Plan and Solutions
To limit shift work fatigue your Fatigue Risk Management System should include control measures that span all aspects of shift planning and workforce management.
optashift will ensure you co-design and implement optimised shift patterns, rostering and scheduling processes and systems as part of a unified Fatigue Management Plan.
This can include modelling shift pattern options for individual risk profiles and scenarios (e.g. exposed roles, process upsets, abnormal working and emergency situations).
Solutions cover key areas of shift work fatigue risk such as:
- Overtime reduction and management
- Emergency staffing plans and shift patterns
- Rostering compliance (shift swaps, on-call etc)
- Task management optimisation
- Break management
- Recording and monitoring hours
Fatigue Monitoring System
The dynamic nature of shift work makes continuous fatigue monitoring an essential element of any Fatigue Risk Management System.
Our experts will work with you to create a solution which tracks, stores, analyses and benchmarks shift work fatigue risk information in a secure database.
The team can either help embed this tool in existing frameworks or create a custom stand-alone Fatigue Monitoring System.
Our Fatigue Monitoring System can be used to:
- Establish shift work fatigue Key Performance Indicators and analytics framework
- Proactively monitor compliance risk and report on performance/progress against fatigue management strategies
- Use data to inform ongoing development of your Fatigue Policy and Fatigue Management Plan
Fatigue Management Guidance
The risk and impact of shift work fatigue means it’s important that awareness and knowledge is embedded across your organisation.
optashift will help you create sustained, multi-stakeholder communications programmes which include bespoke fatigue management training and workplace fatigue resources.
Our experts will ensure you provide employees with guidance and tools to manage shift work fatigue risk that are tailored to variables such as role, responsibility and physical environment.
This includes resources, nudges and interventions designed to:
- Embed Fatigue Policy and fatigue management processes
- Shape culture (including encouraging self-reporting)
- Give shift workers means to manage their lifestyles (sleep, nutrition, physical/mental health)
- Encourage and facilitate co-worker support
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Get in touch if you’d like to discuss shift work fatigue with one of our experts.
Shift Pattern, Shift Work and Shift Worker services
optashift services help you attain optimum shift work performance.
They can be delivered individually or combined to create a unified programme of continuous improvement.
Our agile approach means everything we do is tailored to your organisation and shift workers.
Shift work is complex, sensitive and always changing.
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We want to help tackle some of the biggest challenges facing our economy and society.
We passionately believe optimising shift work has a key role to play in…
- Improving economic productivity
- Supporting workforce wellbeing
- Reducing unnecessary waste
- Creating high quality jobs of the future
- Securing labour supply in key industries
- Managing volatility and strategic change