Risk Assessment

Our assessments of the tiredness-related risk present in a workplace generally consider information collected from 4 sources:

1. Discussions with management.
2. Employee interviews to find out how tired they are, how they cope with their work schedule and whether they are at risk of sleep disorders.
3. An environmental assessment looking at the role factors such as noise, lighting along with canteen and rest facilities, play in workers alertness.
4. The objective measurement of the tiredness associated with current shift schedules using software based on international scientific research.

As a result of a risk assessment, informed decisions about what types of changes: schedule, organisational or environmental, can be made to promote well-being and alertness at work.

We offer a number of specialised risk assessment services, including:

Fatigue-related Risk Assessments

Our first step when assessing the extent to which fatigue impacts upon a client’s business is to undertake a ‘Fatigue-Related Risk Assessment’.

This is designed to assess the extent to which drivers (and other employees involved in safety critical work) are at risk from fatigue. In addition, the risk assessment also enables us to identify strengths, including initiatives, practices and policies which counteract driver tiredness, as well as weaknesses: features of the infrastructure, management practices and policies which contribute to or exacerbate the tiredness experienced by the workforce.

This can also include an ANALYSIS OF SHIFT SCHEDULES - see next page