Absenteeism
Absenteeism alone accounts for significant additional costs per year for shift workers as compared with day workers. For shift workers, only one-third of days taken as sick days are for personal health reasons. The remaining two-thirds are typically due to conflicts with family activities or social reasons as well as excessive fatigue due to poor scheduling.
Operationally, high absenteeism can lead to increased overtime, inefficient production, poor communication and overall loss of production.
How CIRCADIAN AUSTRALIA can help you:
- Shift Work Opportunity Assessment - The first step is to identify the reason for the increased absenteeism, whether it is due to a schedule that does not balance both operational and family/social needs or existing policies and procedures that do not effectively manage absenteeism.
- Shift Schedule Optimisation - In cases where business needs and family social needs are not being met and result in higher absenteeism, a schedule optimisation will assist in reducing absenteeism.
- Managing a Shift Work Lifestyle - Educating employees on how to maximise their sleep quality and quantity will limit absences due to excessive fatigue.
- Fatigue Training Online - The premier online fatigue management training program for the 24/7 workforce. This web-based system offers specialised training programs providing workers with practical solutions to maintain altertness, productivity, safety and high performance on-duty and get better sleep off-duty.
