Education & Training for 24-Hour Operations

Is your shiftwork operation considering:

• Changing your shift schedules?
• Expanding your operating hours to 6 or 7 days a week?
• Developing a Fatigue Risk Management plan?

Before you make any decisions - and risk exposing your operation to avoidable mistakes, unnecessary costs, and potential alienation of the workforce - schedule an onsite workshop with CIRCADIAN®. (We'll conduct the workshop at your operation - so there is no limit to the number of managers who can attend).

All workshops are customized to the specific need of the operation and can be developed to cover a short 2–4-hour introduction to a specific topic or a full 1- or 2-day seminar to explore specific site issues and develop a plan of action more fully. These workshops have proven invaluable to everyone from corporate managers to front-line supervisors.

Some popular on-site workshop topics include:

• Shiftwork Scheduling and Staffing Best Practices.
• Successfully Expanding from 5-7 Day Operations.
• Developing and Implementing an Effective Fatigue Risk Management System.
• Reducing the Risks, Costs, and Liabilities of Fatigue and Human Error in Shiftwork .Operations.
• Managing Shiftworker Health and Safety.
• Maximizing Human Asset Utilization in 24/7 Businesses.
• The Biological Basis of the Shiftwork Problem.
• Incorporating Best Shiftwork Practices into New Plant Design.

CIRCADIAN® offers both public and on-site seminars to help managers and their task teams successfully address the challenges of operating 24/7.

Some popular CIRCADIAN® seminar topics:

• Achieving Shiftwork Excellence: The most comprehensive and up-to-date seminar available about shiftwork. Covers innovative scheduling techniques and other improvements that can significantly enhance the performance and health of shiftworkers while driving down costs and maximizing operational efficiency.
• Fatigue Risk Management Systems (FRMS): In the last five years, FRMS have become the international standard for mitigating risk in shiftwork and 24/7 operations. Learn how to develop and implement an effective Fatigue Risk Management System that will drive down the costs and risks of employee fatigue in your company.
• Converting to 7 Days Operations: Provides proven techniques for managing the complex change to a 7-day continuous operation.

Best Scheduling and Staffing Practices: Are you looking to determine the best shift schedule for your operation? Or does your workload vary, and you want to determine a proportional staffing solution?

It is a staggering fact that even after 20 years on the job, most shiftworkers do not know how to adjust their lifestyle to minimize the negative effects of working around the clock. As a result, their job performance, safety, health, and family life suffer, and your profits and productivity fall.

Therefore, training in these areas can be a powerful tool for improving your employees’ physical and psychological well-being, thereby increasing morale and effectiveness. In fact, research reports have found that turnover and absenteeism rates are higher in facilities that do not provide some type of shiftwork lifestyle training.

Those who work rotating or irregular shifts have different problems from straight day workers because shiftwork has an effect on sleep, alertness, health, and family and social life. Most shiftworkers are unaware of these challenges when they start their shiftwork careers, and many facilities provide little or no education on these areas.

Therefore, training in these areas can be a powerful tool for improving your employees’ physical and psychological well-being, thereby increasing morale and effectiveness. In fact, research reports have found that turnover and absenteeism rates are higher in facilities that do not provide some type of shiftwork lifestyle training.

For employees to perform at their best, they must have the right information at their fingertips. CIRCADIAN® produces a range of training materials written to help shift workers adjust to the demands of working non-traditional hours.

Fatigue Training Online™ : http://www.fatiguetrainingonline.com/index.html

The premier online fatigue management training program for the 24/7 workforce. The web-based system offers specialized training programs to educate workers on how to maintain alertness and high performance on-duty and get better sleep off-duty.

CIRCADIAN® invites you to join us at the most comprehensive and up-to-date seminars available about shiftwork, scheduling, and fatigue risk management.

Upcoming Seminars and Speaking Events

No public seminars are scheduled at this time.