Risk & Cost Assessment

There are inherent necessities and considerable business advantages to running your operation at times outside of just the day shift. However, there are also significant downsides and hidden costs that accompany these extended hour operations.

Essentially a FRA will clarify the current state of fatigue management in your organisation, allow you to better understand how fatigue is impacting your staff, and identify fatigue risks that need to be addressed.

A FRA is also the first step in developing a feedback loop for evaluation, modification and continuous improvement of your fatigue management plan.

An FRA can use the Circadian Alertness Simulator (CAS), an innovative, industry-leading software system to identify and manage fatigue risk. Developed through a decade of research and data collected from over 10,000 recorded 24-hour days from shift work and transportation employees, a FRA can rapidly analyse fatigue risk from the duty-rest or payroll data for any number of employees.

Overstaffing is obviously costly — not just to payroll costs and benefits. It manifests in lack-lustre performance by under-used employees not fully occupied or engaged by continuous operation.

Conversely, understaffing creates excessive overtime, difficulty with relief coverage and training requirements, and dramatic increases in safety risks from fatigue, absenteeism, and even burnout.