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CDT02- How to Manage Your Shift PatternThe aim of this seminar is to provide you with the tools and techniques that will be applicable to anyone who manages shifts and would like to improve their methods for dealing with the day-to-day problems associated with working shifts. It includes:
Learning Objectives:
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| Introduction to Running a Shift Pattern | Objective: Gain an understanding of how to run a shift pattern, the main problems you will come up against and how to tackle these issues.
· Different Types of Shift Patterns · Calculating How Many Staff You Need to Provide Cover · Bank Holidays · Annual Shut Downs · Authorised Leave · Avoiding An Overtime Culture |
| Holiday Management | Objective: Discover how to incorporate everybody's holiday without effecting the operation. · Holiday Management · Summer Holidays, Christmas Time, Bank Holidays, Annual Shutdown, Weekends · Working Time Directive Rules |
| Absence Management | Objective: Learn how to include absence cover arrangements in your shift pattern.
· Why do you need Cover Arrangements · Options · Cross Skills Training · Banked Hours · Short Term Abscess · Long Term Abscess · Authorised Leave |
| Banked (Reserved) Hours Management | Objective: To learn what they are and how they are used..
· The uses of Banked ( or Reserved ) Hours · How to calculate Banked Hours · The associated costs and benefits |
| Fatigue and Shift Working | Objective: Learn how to avoid fatiguing staff
· Causes and Consequences of Fatigue · Shift System · Health and Environment |
| How to Include Training | Objective: Learn how to include Training Into Your Shift Pattern
· Team Training & Individual Training · Rotating onto Training · Selecting Training Days |
| Terms and Conditions of Employment | Objective: How to change your company's terms and conditions of employment.
· Changes required for Holiday and Abscence Solutions · Definitions for Shift Work |
Changing to new Shift Patterns |
| Large organizations | Total capacity flexibility | Examples | |
| Business plans | Saving Money | Mergers/Acquisitions | More: info1, info2 |
| 3 Case Studies -> | New venture NMEC | Acquisition/expansion | Expanding services |
Extract from the book Order form for the book Also available from Amazon, ISBN 9780955919800 |
HOW TO manage your shift patternHolidays and AbsencesThe aim of this 234 page book is to provide you with the tools and techniques to make a shift pattern run smoothly. The main objective of any shift pattern is to ensure you have the right people with the correct skills when and where you want them. The major issues, which are going to prevent you from achieving this objective, are staff holidays and absences. Therefore the two key topics of this book are how to organise staff holidays and staff absences so that they do not effect the operation. In this eye-opening book CDT shows us how to effectively manage holidays, absences and create a shift pattern that actually manages itself. Key topics covered in this book include: · Calculating How Many Staff You Need · Different Types of Shift Patterns · Holiday Management · Holidays Included Shift Patterns · Holidays Excluded Shift Patterns · Shift Cover Arrangements · Banked Hours · Fatigue and Shift Work · Incorporate Training into your Shift Pattern · Terms and Conditions of Employment · Implementing a New Shift Pattern |
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Please phone 01636 816466 or Email: alec@visualrota.co.uk