Fatigue is inherent in any operation where employees work late into the night, start early in the morning, or work long hours. For some companies its risk is small, while for others, one serious employee fatigue-related incident could cause bankruptcy.
Fatigue negatively affects an operation in many ways: fatigued employees are less productive, more prone to health problems, more likely to quit, and more likely to be in an accident. In fact, studies estimate that employee fatigue cost U.S. employers alone over $100 billion a year in lost productivity. Seminar - FATIGUE RISK MANAGEMENT 2010: |
If this is your situation:
- You want to determine the impact of current work schedules on employee fatigue. Without the proper diagnostic tools, many fatigue assessments are inconclusive or misleading.
- You want to separate employee fatigue from other causes of employee errors. While there may be a growing trend in accidents, injuries or errors, it is difficult to determine the true cause.
- You want to develop a comprehensive fatigue risk management system. To be at the forefront of fatigue management, it is important to be able to benchmark your current operation to track internal changes as well as to perform comparative analysis against other similar operations.
- You want to focus your fatigue management efforts on the jobs, groups or schedules that cause the most employee fatigue.
- You want to keep up with new regulations. Many industries including rail, transit, energy and gas transmission are currently undergoing regulatory changes and must update and re-file fatigue risk management systems.
This is how CIRCADIAN can help you:
CIRCADIAN provides a comprehensive, multi-faceted approach to minimizing employee fatigue. From Fatigue Risk Assessment software that identifies which schedules and employees are at a greatest risk of having a fatigue related accident, to educational workshops for managers and employees, we can help you operate at a new level of efficiency.
Our Fatigue Risk Management System includes:
- Developing fatigue management approaches that are customized to address the specific needs of your operation
- Identifying the groups of employees who are most at risk for having fatigue related accidents
- Providing a benchmark of employee fatigue at your operation compared with others in your industry
- Measuring the impact of work scheduling or rostering interventions throughout your operation.
- Providing an ongoing method for making managers and supervisors accountable for fatigue risk management.
- Providing documentation to safety inspectors and government regulators about the effectiveness of fatigue management initiatives.
- Setting industry standards for safety compliance.
- Educating employees and managers on how to reduce employee fatigue.
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