Shift Work and Daylight Savings
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Bernard ErtlMember for 23 years 10 months
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For those of you associated with projects executing around the clock - with two 12 hour shifts (or three 8 hour shifts), what is the SOP (standard operating procedure) for handling the night shift during clock adjustments on daylight savings?
Ie. when jumping forward an hour, does the night shift stay on for the full shift even though it carries them an hour into the next shift? Do you simply adjust the clock hours that the shifts begin/end?
How do you manage this in your schedules, or is it not significant enough to worry about? Any discrepancy will be accounted for after a progress update post clock adjustment, but prior to the event, I suppose it could skew critical path schedules by an hour.
Bernard Ertl
eTaskMaker Project Planning Software
Ie. when jumping forward an hour, does the night shift stay on for the full shift even though it carries them an hour into the next shift? Do you simply adjust the clock hours that the shifts begin/end?
How do you manage this in your schedules, or is it not significant enough to worry about? Any discrepancy will be accounted for after a progress update post clock adjustment, but prior to the event, I suppose it could skew critical path schedules by an hour.
Bernard Ertl
eTaskMaker Project Planning Software
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Oldest first- 0Jihad Daniel ·Dear Bernard,
This is always happening in these fast track projects in Qatar, UAE or others where the Owners want their projects "yesterday". For this reason, Main Contractor is to work hard to complete the job on time, therefore shift work is one of the solutions to achieve this. In these fast-track projects, one hour counts and it’s imperative that Main Contractor makes use of every single hour to meet the challenge in performing and delivering on time the project. When jumping backward or forward an hour, suggest that schedule to be revised at that certain data date with the new adjustment of time and get the consent of Engineer & Employer in doing that to avoid any disputes.
In fact, planners do not revise original or baseline schedules for one single hour but some of them will modify only the updated schedule in adjusting working hours in each shift.In Planners’ opinions, one hour is not worth to do any change specially that Liquidated Damages will not be applied from a specific time in the contract completion date.
However, it’s not a question only of jumping one hour but the impact of this change in workers’ and employees’ schedules and their productivities. Why? Because psychologically speaking, time change affects people’s behaviour, breaks the everyday’s routine, etc. for a short period (few days), before peopole are used to this new timing schedule.
Regards,
J. S. Daniel
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