Workplace fatigue management innovation for national rail freight operator.
nimbus Time2Work workforce scheduling solution integrates the InterDynamics ‘FAID’ application so this national rail freight organisation can predict and manage potentially deadly worker fatigue.
Challenge
- Improve compliance with legislated requirements to manage fatigue of staff.
- Migrate away from reliance on a costly, time consuming and potentially inaccurate manual spreadsheets process of calculate fatigue management scores for future shifts of staff.
- Improve the flexibility of staff shift management and provide teams with greater control over their work life balance.
- Future proof their approach to shift management by enabling a software based, mobile accessed dashboard for shift management, including enabling managers to see hourly scores.
Solution
- Automatically update future shifts when an employee works shorter or longer than what they were scheduled with an updated FAID score.
- Shift widgets to display hourly FAID scores of employees.
- Customise triggers to highlight shifts with FAID scores outside of tolerances (90+ FAID score shifts turn red, 100+ shifts go black).
- Access a dashboard to show shifts above a defined FAID score in the next 14 days.
Results
- Real time visibility of FAID scores to assist in the fatigue management process.
- Improved shift planning capabilities as different scheduling scenarios can be quickly tested with visibility of potential fatigue implications.
- Improved compliance with Fatigue management regulations.
- Time savings from no longer needing to maintain offline spreadsheets.
- Integration of nimbus Time2Work scheduling into the ‘kiosk’ based Sign on/off process for workers, which they can access on their mobile phone app on their phone or at the physical ‘kiosk’.