changing shift patterns guide

Changing to new Shift Patterns

If your Company is thinking about changing to new Shift patterns. We describe the processes involved to do this. Please call us for more details.

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What If Analysis

As well as the Staff Schedule, which is how most people will start off with, there are various ways in which Visual Rota can be used for analysis purposes. The information table contains definitions of your shifts(see Shift Wizard), and these definitions can be amended easily and quickly to enable you to experiment with changes to your usual schedule. This enables you to perform 'What If..' analyses, such as;

Before Visual Rota you would have had a lot of work to do to answer these questions. Now you can pose and answer these, and combinations of these, types of questions in seconds.

Method

  1. Alter the information table
  2. Click on 'Update info table' button.
  3. Click on 'Recalculation of all data' button.
  4. Check results.

How To Manage Your Shift Pattern
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How To Manage Your Shift Pattern

Holidays and Absences

The 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


Training Seminars: CDT01
How To Create:
The Perfect Shift Pattern



The seminar covers everything you need to know on how to set up shift patterns to a criteria such as staffing levels, or staffing budgets, or financial budgets. The aim of this seminar is to provide you with the tools and techniques that will be applicable to any organisation that needs to set up a new shift pattern for a new application, or to improve the organisational efficiency of an on-going requirement.

The Greenaway, Rolleston, Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK


Training Seminar details

Training Seminar CDT02:
How To Manage Your Shift Pattern



The seminar covers everything you need to know to manage holidays and absences. The 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 managing shifts.


The Greenaway, Rolleston, Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK

Training Seminar details


The seminar is aimed at the broadest possible cross section of organisations.
Organisations attending previous seminars include: Criminal Prosecution Service, Northampton University, UYT, Bord Gais, Serious Organised Crime Agency, Cargill, Cosmote Greece, Coors, Glasgow CC, Kalmar, Croda Adhesives, Heinz, London Borough of Merton, MAN, Martin-Baker, NIID, to name a few.