The reasons for owning a library of shift patterns are:
The most common reason is that the workload has changed
The business needs to change with it
The current shift pattern might incur too much overtime Staff are working excessive hoursThere are possible fatigue problemsThere is a loss of continuity of the operation
A new Operation will almost always require a new shift pattern
Expansion of the business Quoting for new business
Reduction in man-hours due to efficiency savings in time
Recession or 'credit crunch' effects
Things to know at when changing your operation:
1. The reason to change
2. What you can change
3. What makes one shift pattern better than another.
There is also the Work/Life Balance to consider when looking at a new shift pattern
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We have constructed new shift patterns for the following organisations. The majority of these started from the examples in this book.
British Broadcasting Corporation
AJ Barr
Bord Gais
Bradford City
Bradford Uni
Johnson & Johnson
Cosmote
DFDS Torline
Graham Brown
Holmesterne Foods
ICI
Intergen
Leeds Met Uni
Marlow Foods
McCains
Novartis
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The aim of this book of shift patterns is to provide a reference guide for the types of available shift patterns by way of supplying, in an easy to print out format, a total of 300 unique shift patterns.
Planned books later this year will increase this to 5000 shift patterns all laid out in an easy to find indexed file. These books will cover having multiple staff on shifts and shift patterns for specific types of workloads.
It is aimed for managers in all the departments that use shifts in their operation. Staff Representative Committees and Unions may also find this book useful when looking for improvement in the ways of working shifts.
A common aim for the organisation, and the staff, is to achieve a good work and life balance.
For most types of workers this is deemed impossible to control as they will be on an 'Office Hours' Monday to Friday operation using an 8-hour shift pattern where
there is no possibility to change it. Whereas, staff working on any type of shift pattern have a totally different situation. They can have a great deal of choice in how and when they would like to work,
when they can take their time off, the duration of each of these, the duration of their holidays, and therefore they feel more in control of the time periods at work and periods of time off.
Examples in this book include shift patterns for 5-day operations that are normally in fixed rotations that now can encompass flexible working.
If you would like to see if there is a better shift pattern available for the current operation, or the next time your organisation is looking at shift patterns, it can now have its own internal library.
| HM Land Registry
Jersey State
Lonza
Martin Baker
Johnson Matthey
Microlise
Millennium Chemicals
Mirror Group
Mondi
NCR
National Grid
10 Downing Street
Rank
RaytheonCroda Adhesives
Heinz
Merton BC
MAN
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Our Shift Pattern Library |
We maintain an extensive library of shift patterns and you can now purchase these shift patterns.
From this library We have designed and implemented shift patterns for every type of situation you could image.
No matter how complicated the staffing requirement, we have never failed to produce the most appropriate shift pattern for our clients using the building blocks in this library. The book contains the details of how this is done.
Book 1 has 300 shift patterns, each set out for a complete year along with the statistical calculations.
Shift Patterns to provide one team on duty at a time or to provide one individual on duty at a time.
Instructions in the book show how we combine these shift patterns to provide asymmetrical combinations of staffing such as;
two staff on a Day shift and one staff on the Night shift; or two staff on weekdays and one on weekends.
The shift patterns are set up for a complete calendar year with instructions on how to start it on any day of the year and any date in the year.
The tables of statistical results show the number of shifts each person will work and the number of hours they will work in the year and in shorter periods of time.
| Royal Bank of Scotland
RIM
Schlumberger
Schutz
Scottish Power
The Independent
Sutton BC
Twinings
Warwickshire Police
World Wide Fruit
Geest
6 Continents Hotels
ACR Logistics
Argyle Taxis
Hounslow BC
Western Power, AUS
Amey Mouchel
NIIB
Oman Cables
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Different Weekly Contract Hours Calculations |
The book shows how to calculate these quantities for all types of contract hours; such as 42, 40, 39, 37.5 and 36 hours per week.
The book shows how to include any amount of unpaid breaks on a shift into the statistical calculations.
The shift patterns include 5-day working with 'Office Hours' shifts, double and triple shifts and continuous 7-day working.
The book includes all the popular and traditional types of shift patterns where staff can request a holiday. These are known as Holiday Excluded Shift Patterns (HESP) and are where the staff have to request their holidays days.
This often requires providing cover arrangements, which are either provided within the team or additional personnel need to be provided.
It also includes versions of these shift patterns that include the holidays. Holiday Included Shift Patterns (HISP) are very popular. These shift patterns are where the staff are rostered off in turn on holiday all the way through the year.
This does not require any cover arrangement from inside a team or from other sources as it forms an integral part of the structure of the shift pattern.
A HISP would normally provide about 15 weeks of holiday a year to each person.
HISPs are proving very popular especially when there is an extended Summer break of at least two weeks and so each HISP has at least one version that includes an extended Summer break for all staff.
If you are not familiar with Holiday Included Shift Patterns (HISP), this book provides you with what is a growing trend
among organisations. More on this subject can be found in our book: How to Manage Your Shift Pattern.
| Barclays Bank
Bedfordshire Police
Britannia Building Society
Clyde Ports
Diageo
Dupont
Electricity Supply Board
Exel
Financial Times
Amtek
Homefirst
Johns Manville
Nestle
Chemring
Staffordshire Police
South West Water
TASS
Telco Global
SOCA
Kings College London
Kintetsu World Express
Lebara
London Bus
Mansfield Town
Nottingham City Hospital
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Staff Assessments of the Shift Patterns |
The book describes how to assess each type of shift pattern from the viewpoint of the staff. This is in regard to their rostered time off within the shift pattern, how to maximise their time off through selective choices of booking holidays or swapping shifts.
This provides for achieving a personal work and life balance by manupulating their individual shift pattern. Each person has an individual aim when it comes to their work and life balance requirements.
However, much of this is about the amount of control they have over when they work and when they have their time off. They need to be satisfied with the balance of enjoying their life and earning the means to make it enjoyable.
That way it is mutually beneficial to the individual and the organisation to have an appropriate shift pattern.
A person on Office Hours working Monday to Friday usually has little control as they can only take a day off by booking a holiday. They balance this by arranging their personal activities to evenings and weekends.
However, by several Office Hours staff combining their holidays, they can achieve a much better work and life balance. We have provided this facility in a few instances for clients.
| Kalmar
Nottinghamshire CC
Mitie
Northern Ireland Electricity
Onyx
Oxford Brookes Uni
ABB
Superform Aluminium
Handelsbanken
RWE NPower
Hampshire CC
Northgate Information Solutions
Swisslog
avon Fire & Rescue
Nynas
Barlinnie Prison
Flexsys
Dunlop
AerocanKingspan InsulationTerramInnovia FilmsGerber FoodsLNWRSedgefield BCWindowstyle UK
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Download 3 Example Shift Patterns |
Click here to download 3 Shift pattern examples.
These examples you can download shows a 2on-2off shift pattern in three versions.
Working 2on-2off is a fairly relaxed way to work 24/7 on shifts, although it has to be said, it is not used very often in practice due to its unfamiliarity among managers and staff. However it has a lot going for it.
The printout examples are on A4 and are usually printed out over two pages.
The first example, SP-1-97, show 4 teams providing 24/7 working on a Holiday Excluded Shift Pattern (HESP).
The second example, SP-1-98, shows 5 teams working on a Holiday Included Shift Pattern (HISP).
The HISP provides each person with a 7-day break every 25 days. This will happen about 15 times a year (that is: 365/25).
The third example, SP-1-99, shows 5 teams working on the same HISP as above for most of the year, but it is set up to provide everyone with a longer 15 day break in the Summer period.
The Summer period is shown here as being from 18th June to 31st August.
All the 300 shift patterns can be printed out in an easy-to-read format. They can be printed across 2 pages of A4, or duplex printed on one sheet, or as a 2-page spread on A3.
Other paper sizes are easy to set up.
| Pinderfields Hospital
Ticona
United Biscuits
Yell
Yorkshire Water
Zund
York Uni
Amscott
Anglian Water
AP Chemicals
Autoliv
British American Tobacco
Bermuda Police
Bid-Up TV
British Petroleum
BPB
CGG
HSBC
Coors
Criminal Prosecution Service
Metropolitan Police
Northampton Uni
UYT
Cargill
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The shift patterns all have a brief description of the shift pattern.
All the shift patterns produce the following statistical results:
HESP & HISP
Period covered 1st January to 31st December
HESP: 4 Teams or 4 Individuals,
HISP: 5 Teams or 5 Individuals
Number of each type of shift worked by each individual in the year: Days, Nights, Early, Late, 8-hrs & 12-hrs.
Number of hours worked by each individual in the year
Number of weekends and weekend shifts worked by each individual in the year
Average number of shifts worked in the year
Average number of hours worked in the year and the average each week.
Book 1 is in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format and sent as an email attachment or on CD.
The cost of Book 1 is GBP£100 per copy.
Two printed copies are allowed per purchased copy.
VAT is chargeable in the UK.
VAT registered organisations in the EU, except in UK, can be supplied without VAT being charged on supplying their VAT registration number.
No VAT is chargeable on orders from outside the EU.
Delivery by email is free, a CD-ROM copy can be supplied for £10p&p.
Discounts apply for multiple copies.
Payment can be by credit/debit card, cheque or bank transfer.
| Carphone Warehouse
RaboBank
Royal Hospital Chelsea
ExxonMobile
Quatar Petroleum
SRM
Heidelberg Cement
Conoco
Curtis Fine Paper
Dairy Crest
Essex Police
Firmenich
Glasgow City
Glasgow Museums
Three
Glasgow Archdiocese
Aviagen
Munoz Mehadrin
Volvo
Allied Domecq
Vantico
Foreshore
Alstom
SAIC
Trustmarque Solutions
Caterpillar
Securicor
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