Fatigue and Shift-Work Risk Management

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A free, four-hour awareness course on recognising and controlling fatigue and shift-work risks. Learn sleep and circadian principles, roster design, overtime and call-out controls, genuine breaks, safe handovers, reporting, fitness-for-work response and safe travel. Includes 12 modules, 24 lessons with activities, 30 quiz questions and a fictional roster-review assignment.

LO01: Identify fatigue warning signs and explain their safety implications.
LO02: Distinguish time off, sleep opportunity and actual sleep, including circadian effects.
LO03: Describe employer, scheduler, supervisor and worker responsibilities and reporting routes.
LO04: Assess fatigue contributors using task, roster and worker information.
LO05: Propose roster improvements without treating a schedule as a guarantee of safety.
LO06: Review overtime, shift swaps and call-outs before authorising changes.
LO07: Select practical workload, break and handover controls.
LO08: Plan recovery and explain the limitations of caffeine, naps and personal strategies.
LO09: Respond to suspected impairment and identify when confidential health support is needed.
LO10: Plan safer work journeys and respond appropriately to drowsy driving.
LO11: Interpret fatigue indicators and investigate events without unsupported conclusions.
LO12: Prepare a prioritised fatigue-control plan with owners and effectiveness checks.

Course Content

Understanding fatigue
Recognise fatigue as a work risk and respond to warning signs.

01 | Fatigue as a workplace hazard
02 | Recognising signs and taking action

Sleep and the body clock
Explain sleep opportunity, sleep loss and the challenges of night work.

Responsibilities and reporting
Define management and worker actions, with clear escalation routes.

Assessing fatigue risks
Review actual work, exposure and existing controls.

Designing safer rosters
Evaluate shift timing, recovery and worker consultation.

Overtime, call-outs and change
Control deviations from the planned roster.

Workload, breaks and handovers
Support safe performance throughout the shift.

Sleep and recovery practices
Plan realistic recovery and recognise the limits of countermeasures.

Fitness for work and health support
Respond to impairment and refer persistent concerns appropriately.

Driving and journeys after shifts
Manage work driving and safe travel home.

Monitoring and learning
Use records, indicators and investigations to improve controls.

Putting the programme into practice
Build an action plan and review a fictional operation.

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Course Content

Understanding fatigue Recognise fatigue as a work risk and respond to warning signs.

01 | Fatigue as a workplace hazard

02 | Recognising signs and taking action

Sleep and the body clock Explain sleep opportunity, sleep loss and the challenges of night work.

03 | Sleep need and accumulated sleep loss

04 | Circadian timing and night work

Responsibilities and reporting Define management and worker actions, with clear escalation routes.

05 | Management, schedulers and workers

06 | Reporting, escalation and local requirements

Assessing fatigue risks Review actual work, exposure and existing controls.

07 | Gathering the right evidence

08 | Risk assessment and the limits of scores

Designing safer rosters Evaluate shift timing, recovery and worker consultation.

09 | Shift duration, recovery and rotation

10 | Consultation and testing a proposed roster

Overtime, call-outs and change Control deviations from the planned roster.

11 | Overtime and shift swaps

12 | On-call duty and emergency changes

Workload, breaks and handovers Support safe performance throughout the shift.

13 | Workload, environment and genuine breaks

14 | Handovers and safety-critical tasks

Sleep and recovery practices Plan realistic recovery and recognise the limits of countermeasures.

15 | Protecting sleep opportunity

16 | Caffeine, naps and their limitations

Fitness for work and health support Respond to impairment and refer persistent concerns appropriately.

17 | Responding to a fitness-for-work concern

18 | Health support and confidentiality

Driving and journeys after shifts Manage work driving and safe travel home.

19 | Business driving and transport planning

20 | Drowsy driving and the journey home

Monitoring and learning Use records, indicators and investigations to improve controls.

21 | Records and meaningful indicators

22 | Investigating events and reviewing changes

Putting the programme into practice Build an action plan and review a fictional operation.

23 | Building a usable fatigue programme

24 | Integrated roster-review exercise