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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.dont know if it helps but a shift of 2 men working 12 hours a day for 7 days followed by another 2 working 12 hour night for a week and then a week off while the other 4 take there turns for a week? When they return after a week off the night workers switch to days and vice versa so it is equal for all.
it means doing a 7 day week and doing 84 hour week(not un heard of in some workplaces), but u then follow that with a 7 day week off to recover and breaks the 2 weeks down to a 42 hour week in principle, but with all the work concentrated as such it means effectivly only working very hard for 26 weeks of a year and having another 26 weeks of the year off!!
Also with a whole week off this would reduce actual holiday time cover as any longer than a week off would fall under there regular time off (although this causes problems for paid time off)
to provide cover for sickness or holidays u could place the staff that are "week off" on a rota where as 2 of the 4 on there week off are on call for sickness etc, and the other two are guarenteed complete freedom from providing cover, then 2 weeks later on there next week off they swap and the other two are on call to provide cover if emergancy.
How much of this is legal/workable/feasible is not for me to say but just trying to throw some ideas in the pot.
I work in an environment that requires the exact same coverage. My shift system is as follows, I'm always with a partner;
- Mon. 0700 - 1900
- Tues 0700 - 1900
- Wed off
- Thur off
- Fri 0700 - 1900
- Sat 0700 - 1900
- Sun 0700 - 1900
- Mon off
- Tues off
- Wed 0700 - 1900
- Thur 0700 - 1900
- Fri off **
- Sat off
- Sun off
- Mon 1900 - 0700
- Tues 1900 - 0700
- Wed off
- Thur off
- Fri 1900 - 0700
- Sat 1900 - 0700
- Sun 1900 - 0700
- Mon off
- Tues off
- Wed 1900 - 0700
- Thur 1900 - 0700
- Fri off
- Sat off
- Sun off
- Mon - pattern starts again
Obviously the other three 'couples' are working a similar pattern to fill in the missing shifts. Eight people is the absolute minimum needed to work 24/7 365 and even then it will put an enormous burden on each of you as you try to cover sickness, holidays etc etc because you only have 2 other individuals to call upon. Look at the Friday I've asterisked, for example. You need a day shift covered. I could do it, my partner could do it. B couple can't because they've just worked all Thursday night. C couple can't because it's already their day shift (and one is off sick, the one you're trying to cover) and D couple will be working Friday night. This is assuming of course that a 12 hour shift is the maximum allowed; I personally think anything longer than that becomes dangerous.