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Written by: Bruce OliverAttacking Fatigue in the Workplace - Click To Read Article
A major workplace issue today is employee fatigue. Alertness in the workplace pays for itself through productivity, safety and quality. It doesn’t happen by accident. Managers can minimize fatigue by attacking it on seven fronts: (1) education, (2) start times, (3) shift length, (4) fixed vs. rotating shifts, (5) consecutive days of work, (6) employee preferences and (7) overtime.
Characteristics of Effective Shift Work Schedules - Click To Read Article
At a minimum, an effective schedule should: (1) keep your best and/or most expensive equipment productive, i.e. maximize your equipment utilization, (2) provide continuous coverage in areas that have significant start-up and shutdown costs, (3) match the coverage to the workload (in other words, provide enough coverage to get the necessary work done, and no more), (4) have the ability to flex up to meet customer demands, flex down when workload is low, and (5) not be constrained by pay and work policies that make normal operating situations excessively expensive.
Shift Work Schedules: What Employees Want - Click To Read Article
There are four types of time-off that employees consider when evaluating a shift schedule: (1) weekends off, (2) total days off, (3) daily time off, and (4) consecutive days off. This article examines the schedule attributes that drive these four different types of time-off, using statistics from over 20,000 shiftworker surveys.
Employee Shift Work Schedules - Click To Read Article
More and more organizations are adopting work schedules that require longer and/or multiple shifts. For managers who are new to the job or unfamiliar with shift schedules, this can be quite a challenge. This paper will introduce managers to five fundamental components of shift work schedules: (1) shift length, (2) schedule format, (3) on-off work pattern, (4) overtime, and (5) scheduling policies.
Using Shift Work Solutions to Improve Your Lean Manufacturing Operations - Click To Read Article
When companies begin implementing lean manufacturing principles, they often overlook the possibility of using customized shift work solutions to support or enhance their efforts.
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About the Author: Bruce Oliver RSS for Bruce's articles - Visit Bruce's website Shiftwork Solutions is a hands-on consulting firm that manages your shift work project with you. Over the last 20 years we have helped more than 300 companies worldwide. We specialize in all aspects of shiftwork operations including: * Transitioning from 5-day to 7-day operations Click here to visit Bruce's website Characteristics of Effective Shift Work Schedules Using Shift Work Solutions to Improve Your Lean Manufacturing Operations Attacking Fatigue in the Workplace Employee Shift Work Schedules Shift Work Schedules What Employees Want |
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