Workshops
We provide a range of workshops, seminars and conferences on issues relating to shiftwork, fatigue, sleep, nutrition, rostering and general wellness topics for shiftworkers
Living with Shiftwork
Shiftwork has many challenges including how and when to sleep, what to eat, how to balance family with home life and how to stay alert when working. This workshop provides practical tips on sleep and alertness techniques and includes a personalised shiftwork management plan. This is our most popular workshop. View outline here.
Managing Driver Fatigue
Fatigue is a significant contributing factor in many road accidents. This workshop is for professional drivers who need to know how to identify, minimise and manage fatigue. It is ideal for truck drivers, taxi drivers and forklift drivers. View outline here.
Train the Trainer
This 2-day workshop is for staff/managers who intend to train their staff in fatigue management. The course can be adapted to provide the trainers with the necessary knowledge to deliver the Shiftwork Services 'Living with Shiftwork' or the 'Driver Fatigue' Training Programmes in-house. In order to do this they will need to have an understanding of the principles behind fatigue-risk management. This workshop will provide the necessary training for them to do this. View outline here.
Communication Skills for Shiftworker
Good communication skills are needed in all workplace environments but it is particularly important for people working shifts or extended hours. Effective communication at shift handover times or, for communicating with staff that you rarely see face-to-face is crucial to a productive and efficient workplace. View outline here.
Conflict Resolution
We have all experienced the stress that comes from having unresolved conflicts with our co-workers. Conflicts that are ignored or resolved badly don't go away--they cause people to feel resentful and to avoid each other. The effects on the company are a loss of productivity, absenteeism and turnover. View outline here.
Women and Shiftwork
The aim of this workshop is to help managers and female shiftworkers by recognizing the health and social situations that many women face and work towards win win solutions. View outline here.
Sleep Your Way to Success - Sleep Better, Feel Better, Perform Better
We need to sleep in order to have energy to function properly. New scientific studies suggest that poor sleep can negatively impact on our metabolism and hormones adding inches to our waists and playing havoc with our immune system. This workshop is packed with vital information about sleep difficulties and strategies to sleep better so that you can feel better and perform better. Participants will leave with their own green prescription for better sleep. View outline here.
Managing 24/7 Operations
The requirements of working shifts/extended hours bring unique management issues. If you have staff working shifts you need to be aware of these issues and have management strategies to deal with them. This workshop will give you the necessary information and tools to help you manage the staff effectively with the aim of maximising operational efficiency and safety. View outline here.
The Right Roster
Implementing the best- fit roster for your organisation can provide a high return on investment. Getting it wrong results in high costs associated with increased turnover, absenteeism, human error, accidents, incidents and fatigue. This workshop will give you the necessary information and tools to help you develop and implement successfully the right roster for your organisation. View outline here.
Eat Right - Work Smart - Sleep Tight
If you – or any of your colleagues - are looking for new ideas about what to eat to keep yourself and staff awake, fit and healthy then the Eat Right, Work Smart and Sleep Tight, workshop is what you have been waiting for. View outline here.
Stress Management
Stress can result in poor quality sleep and a general feeling of tiredness. It can also adversely affect creativity, motivation and communication. It can lead to muddled thinking, irrational decisions and absenteeism. As shiftworkers or individuals working extended hours, good quality sleep and being able to sleep when you need to is essential. View outline here.
Managing Change
This is a highly interactive workshop with focusing on in-house issues concerning shiftwork situations. and conditions within the 24/7 environment. It focuses on identifying root causes and how to resolve these issues sustainably, through working with stakeholders. The workshop provides practical guidance and tips in a structured format which can be applied directly after the workshop. View outline here.
Assessing the Role of Fatigue in Accidents, Incidents and Absenteeism and How to Minimise Fatigue Risk
Fatigue is a significant contributing factor in many accidents and incidents as well as a reason that staff take time off work. This workshop will show you how to assess the role of fatigue in accidents in order to help you develop a fatigue safe workplace. View outline here.
Managing Fatigue Risk
For many workers fatigue is unavoidable. This workshop introduces participants to fatigue risk management principles. Faid® software is used to identify hour by hour fatigue scores and associated task risk. This enables individuals to be safer and more productive. View outline here.
All workshops are adapted to meet your specific needs.
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