Shiftwork operations are unique workplaces where experience matters.
Shiftwork Solutions are roster and hours of work specialists that improve business, employee and health/safety performance.
"Shiftwork Solutions opened up our thinking. I wish we had involved them earlier, before we started to make changes to the rosters. We will be using them again soon to help with other areas of our business." – Jeff Harrison, General Manager, Magnesite Operations, Queensland Magnesia
"The smooth implementation of the change management was the direct result of the leadership and skilled management from Shiftwork Solutions. This was an excellent investment for the long-term operation of the facility." – Greg Breadsell, General Manager, West Kimberley Power Project, Energy Developments Limited
"It's not what Shiftwork Solutions cost. It's what you saved us that makes the difference. You exceeded our expectations." – Barry Hocking, General Manager Aviation/Operations, Royal Flying Doctor Service
With nine specialist areas of expertise, we can fine tune existing roster arrangements and provide end-to-end solutions.
Increase knowledge and capability within your team. Improve alertness, health and wellbeing. Reduce fatigue.
Plan, manage, assess and communicate your rosters easily, using a software system that is built for 24/7 shiftwork operations.
Measure the performance of your current roster and identify optimal alternatives.
Obtain valuable input from your workforce in a managed way.
Ensure your rosters and hours of work are grounded in safety and sleep science.
Use a proven roster design and selection process that is customised to your needs.
Leverage our expertise in change management and roster implementation.
Ensure you and your workforce are on the same page.
Guidance through the complex world of renumeration for shiftwork operations.
Measure the impact of roster changes on your workforce and business.
Implement health and safety strategies to protect your greatest assets.
"I have engaged Shiftwork Solutions over the last eight years in two different organisations. In both cases, Shiftwork Solutions engage with the organisation to understand the constraints and enablers to effective solutions. The results are beneficial for both employees and the business. Real value has been added." – Jim Irvine, General Manager HR, Rio Tinto Gove
Measure the performance of your current roster and identify optimal alternatives.
Over time, changes in business requirements and workplace conditions can make existing rosters inefficient and expensive. Uncover hidden costs in your current arrangements and identify new opportunities with a customised roster solution.
Obtain thorough analyses of operational requirements, working conditions, costs, utilisation, employment agreement conditions, attendance, turnover, productivity, maintenance, relief coverage, training, communication, supervision, safety performance and other business interests to help your roster selection.
There is much more to a roster than just a day on day off pattern. Let us show you how rosters can better match your workload and deliver more for your business.
Obtain valuable input from your workforce in a managed way.
Manage expectations, improve morale and create acceptance and ownership of the final solutions by involving your workforce in the roster review process.
Shiftwork Solutions meets with employees around-the-clock to improve participation and ensure employee understanding of how the roster review process works, thus minimising misconceptions, rumours and low morale that can arise during times of change.
Shiftwork Solutions has met with and surveyed over 35,000 individual shift workers providing a significant database of results and experience for use in your roster review.
Ensure your rosters and hours of work are grounded in safety and sleep science.
How well are your workers coping with their current hours of work?
Are your hours of work productive, sustainable and safe?
Do you require control measures to manage fatigue related risks?
Understanding relationships between fatigue, sleep, hours of work and other factors is critical to optimising your roster design (the plan), actual hours of work, mitigating factors and the use of additional control measures for the management of fatigue.
Both management and employees have responsibilities for managing fatigue and Shiftwork Solutions can help clarify safety issues from personal preferences and improve the health, safety and wellbeing of your work force.
Use a proven roster design and selection process that is customised to your needs.
Optimising rosters is an iterative process involving multiple parties and personal interests. Save time, money and effort by using our expertise, systems and proven processes to guide you and your team through:
Whether you want to fine-tune an existing roster arrangement, or need full site-integrated roster design, our experience and extensive roster model database can improve workplace efficiency, reduce costs and deliver a more motivated workforce.
Leverage our expertise in change management and roster implementation.
Implementing change in a shiftwork environment is emotive. Avoid additional delays, higher costs, mistrust and even industrial action that ineffective roster implementation can create.
Shiftwork Solutions’ experienced consultants communicate and manage all aspects of roster change to ensure a smooth, positive rollout.  Key implementation decisions and communications to consider include:
Ensure you and your workforce are on the same page.
Misunderstandings and misinterpretations of agreed conditions for pay and benefits occur more frequently with multi shift operations and seven-day rosters. We also find that changes or adjustments to rosters without updating language in the enterprise agreement contributes to disputes.
Seven-day rosters are more complex than five-day rosters, explaining why there is a separate shiftwork section in most awards and agreements detailing additional conditions and requirements for these hours of work. These conditions affect your costs and operational flexibility.
Before your next enterprise agreement expires, include a review by Shiftwork Solutions of the terms and conditions for your hours of work. This feedback will improve your preparedness and provide new strategies and options for discussion during your next agreement.
Guidance through the complex world of remuneration for shiftwork operations.
Make certain you’re correctly remunerating your workforce.  If you do not completely understand how your roster(s) work, it is easy to make a mistake when calculating pay and benefits.
Shiftwork Solutions’ pay and benefit calculations clarify what should be paid or received based on your terms, conditions, individual roster patterns and actual hours of work. These calculations include contributions or impacts from:
Measure the impact of roster changes on your workforce and business.
Implemented a new roster or other changes for your shiftwork operation and want to review how things are going?
Shiftwork Solutions has significant experience evaluating impacts on business, employee and health/safety performance from roster changes. We have developed performance measures and evaluation techniques for rosters that provide useful feedback regarding your changes and assist with identifying any modifications to fine tune the result.
Implement health and safety strategies to protect your greatest assets.
Fatigue management policies provide an opportunity to communicate your commitment, objectives and responsibilities for managing fatigue risk associated with your shiftwork operations.
Roster design and fatigue management policies work hand in hand to reduce fatigue related risks and safeguard your workforce.
Shiftwork Solutions provides advice and recommendations regarding your fatigue related risks, policies, systems, culture, education materials and other options for achieving an acceptable level of risk for fatigue.
Educate your workforce on managing a shiftwork lifestyle with training tailored to your industry and business. Choose from e-learning, classroom sessions, or take-home information booklets and help your workforce manage fatigue, understand key factors that impact their alertness and improve health, safety and wellbeing.
Specialist roster and shiftwork skills are hard to find.
Learn from the experts and build in-house capability. Improve decision making by increasing staff understanding of business, employee and health/safety impacts in a shiftwork environment.
Register your details and be part of the largest shiftwork community in Australia.
Shiftwork Solutions will keep you up to date with targeted information to improve your rostering arrangements and shiftwork operations along with special invitations to industry seminars and events.
Even the best designed rosters need managing to work. ROSTERkey is software that not only takes
the complexity out of shiftwork roster management, it unlocks the potential within.
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Adbri Masonry
Adelaide Brighton
Albright and Wilson
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AMCOR
Amoco Australia
Aperio Group - Finewrap
Asahi Beverages
Asaleo Care
AstraZeneca
Austrak
Australian Country Choice
Australian Hardboards
Australian Pacific Paper Products
Australian Paper
Australasian Lubricants Mfg Co.
Big River Group
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Boral
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Calum Textiles
Cadbury
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Cerebos
Cheetham Salt
Chep
Ciba Specialty Chemicals
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Cleary Bros.
Cockburn Cement
Coca-Cola Amatil
Cochlear
Coles
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Coopers Brewery
Cross Yarra Partnership
CSBP
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Detmold Group
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Dyno Nobel
ESCO
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Fletcher Insulation
Gallagher Group
GlaxoSmithKline
Green’s Foods
Hans Continental Smallgoods
Hazeldenes
Herron
Holcim
Holden
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Hyne Timber
Incitec Pivot
Ingham
Innovia Films
Inova Pharmaceuticals
Jack Links
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JDS Uniphase
Kellogg’s
Kilcoy Global Foods
Kraft Heinz
Lactalis
Liberty Primary Steel Whyalla
Lion
Luina Bio
Mars Wrigley
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Mauri anz
Merck Sharp & Dohme
Merino
MM Kembla
National Foods
Nestle
Newscorp
New Zealand King Salmon
Norske Skog
Nufarm
Nufarm Coogee
Olex
One Harvest
OneSteel
Onslow Salt
Orica
Orora
Orrcon
OSI International
Palmer Tube Mills
Paperlinx
Pentair Water
Perth Mint
Pfizer
PGH Bricks & Pavers
Philip Morris
Prysmian Cables & Systems
Ralston Purina
Real Pet Food Company
Ridley Corporation
Schlam
Sell and Parker
Shark Bay Resources
Simplot
Snack Brands Australia
S04
SunRice
Sunstate Cement
Synlait Milk
Tasman Insulation
Ticor Chemical
Tip Top
Top Taste Cakes
Tronox
Uncle Ben’s
Unilever Foods
Vinidex
Visy
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Wellard Feeds
Wesfarmers
WesTrac
Weyerhauser Australia
Wilson Transformer
AAP Communications
Abigroup
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ACT City Services
ACT Corrective Services
Adelaide Aquatic Centre
Adelaide Youth Training Centre
ADT Security
Adventist Senior Living
AMP Capital
AMS Group
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Ansett Airlines
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Ashley Youth Detention Centre
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Attorney General’s Department
Auckland Transport
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Australian Defence Force
Australian Federal Police
Australian Maritime Safety Auth.
Australian Red Cross LifeBlood
Australian Services Union
Australian War Memorial
Australasian Maritime Systems
B & J Catalano
Baptist Care
Beaumont Transport
Bechtel
BHP Transport
Blue Care
Brisbane Airport Corporation
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Brisbane Markets
Brisbane Marine Pilots
BrisConnections
Broadspecturm
Bureau of Meteorology
Caltex Aviation
Caltex Banksmeadow Terminal
Canberra Airport Fuel Services
Capital Airport Group
Care For You At Home
Catholic Care
City of Belmont, WA
City of Rockingham, WA
City of Wyndham, VIC
Clough Downer
Coles Group Logistics
Colorado Group
Community Corrections, TAS
Corrections Victoria
Corrective Services, NSW
Cross Yarra Partnership
Crown Melbourne
Crown Perth
CSIRO
Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal
Darwin Port
Dept. of Agriculture (Biosecurity)
Dept. for Child Protection, SA
Dept. of Communities, WA
Dept. for Correctional Services, SA
Dept. of Education & Training, VIC
Dept. of Foreign Affairs & Trade
Dept. of Human Services, SA
Dept. of Human Services, VIC
Dept. of Immigration
Dept. of Infrastructure & Transport, SA
Dept. of Justice, WA
Dept. of Justice & Comm. Safety, VIC
Dept. of Parliamentary Services
Dept. of Youth Justice, QLD
Donate Life
Downer
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- Rail
DP World
Endeavour Foundation
Exxon Mobil Heliport
First Data Resources
Flinders Adelaide Container Terminal
Fremantle Port Authority
Frontline Human Resources
Fujitsu
Fulton Hogan
Geelong Port
GEO Group
G4S
Gladstone Airport Corporation
Gladstone Community Linking Agency
Gladstone Ports Corporation
Global Renewables
Gold Coast Airport
Golden Casket Lottery
Guide Dogs Victoria
Hall Contracting
Helloworld
Hunter Valley Coal Chain Coord.
IBM Australia
IG Partners
Infrastructure Capital Group
Intabill
Intellectual Disability Rights Service
International SOS
Intrapower
Intrepid Travel
K & L Gates
Kempsey Shire
Key Assets
Kyabra Community Association
Lendlease-Tyco JV
Life Without Barriers
Lifestyle Solutions
Management & Training Corp.
Marist180
McConnell Dowell
McIver Transport
Melbourne Airport Refuellers
Mercy Connect
Mildura Airport
Mission Australia
Morgan Stanley
MS Queensland
MTC Australia
Multiplex
Murphy Pipe and Civil
NASA
National Gallery of Australia
National Museum of Australia
Newcastle Port Corporation
North Metropolitan Health Service
North Qld Bulk Ports Corp
Northern Stevedoring Services
NSW Education & Communities
NSW Lotteries
NT Correctional Services
Oasis Shopping Centre
Office of Transport Security
On the Line
One Rail Australia
Pacific National
Parliament of NSW
Passport Card
Patrick
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- Ports and Stevedoring
Perth Airport
Perth Zoo
Pilbara Ports Authority
Port Authority of NSW
Port of Brisbane
Ports Corporation of QLD
Port Kembla Port Corporation
Ports North
Port of Townsville
Ports Victoria
Public Transport Authority of WA
Qantas
Queensland Bulk Handling
Queensland Corrective Services
QLD Dept. Transport & Main Roads
Queensland Health
Queensland Hydro
Aged & Disability Services
RBWH
QLD Investment Corporation
Queensland Police Service
Queensland Rail
Queensland Transport
- Translink
- Maritime Safety Queensland
Queensland Health
- Sunshine Coast Health Services
Qube Holdings
QSL
RAA
RACQ
RAC WA
Rail, Tram, and Bus Union
Redland Hospital
Rio Tinto Technology & Innovation
Rivtow Marine
Rottnest Island Authority
Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne
Royal Flying Doctor Service
RSPCA
Save the Children
Seven Network
Seyfarth Shaw
SBS
SkyCity Casino
Smit Lamnalco
Solomon Islands Prison Service
South Australia Police
Southern Cross Care (WA)
Southern Ports
Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology
Suncorp
STB Transport
Svitzer Towage Services
Sydney Airport Fuel Services
Sydney Ports Corporation
Sydney West Area Health Service
Tasmania Community Corrections
Tasmania Prison Service
Tattersall’s
Teekay Shipping
Tenix
Territory Families
Thiess
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- Shipping
Transmission Pipelines Australia
Transport for New South Wales
Transurban
Tunnel Network Services
UGL
Unity Housing Company
University of Adelaide
University of South Australia
University of Western Australia
Ventia
VIC Gambling & Casino Control Comm.
Virgin Australia
Waka Kotahi – NZ Transport Agency
Watpac
WesTrac
Whakatane Hospital (NZ)
Wollongong City Council
Youth Substance Abuse Services
Shiftwork Solutions are subject matter experts for rosters and hours of work and provide information to the Fair Work Commission, the Courts, media and at industry conferences. Our experience includes:
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From simple to complex... we design rosters that work.
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