Managing Fatigue in the Workplace: Strategies and Risks

BSBLDR602 PROVIDE
LEADERSHIP ACROSS
THE ORGANISATION
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TASK 2: Project portfolio...............................................................................................................3
SECTION 2: Fatigue management report-..................................................................................3
SECTION 3: Professional goals and development-....................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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TASK 2: Project portfolio
SECTION 2: Fatigue management report-
Introduction:
The main purpose of this report is to analyse the issue of the fatigue of the employees within the
Boutique Build Australia. This report will discuss the problems which are associated with the
fatigue and why this is the problem within the companies. Along with this, the risks which are
associated with the fatigue as well as the strategies for managing the fatigue within the
organization will be discussed. The report will also propose the strategies which will help in
managing the fatigue and the relationship for controlling the hierarchy.
Fatigue Analysis within organization:
This the structural analysis which involves the failure tendency of the systems when these are
subjected towards the cyclical loads (Williamson and Friswell, 2018). There are various methods
which can be used for the calculating the fatigue within the organization are stress life, strain life
and many more.
The following is the September time sheet data of the company:
Department Working hours Week period (M to F) Breaks
Human resource
manager
180 hours 4 days 30 minutes per day
Marketing Manager 190 hours 4 days No lunch breaks
Operations Manager 14.5 hours 3 days whole month Lunch breaks taken
Administration Officer 152 hours 4 days 30 minutes per day
It has been found from the above data sheet of the September that employees of the marketing
manager are working for the excessive hours and due to this reason there has been identified the
fatigue within the employees of the organization.
Problems associated with fatigue:
Fatigue is basically referring to as the issue which is raised within the workplace when the
working hours or there is excessive working hours which are Fatigue has been identified as one
of the biggest problem which is faced by many numbers of the companies. By going through the
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case study of Boutique build company it was found that company is facing the problem if the
fatigue and due to this reason there are many other problems arising within the organization. The
fatigue among the employees results to the slower reactions of the employees, the ability of the
process information is reduced, decreases the awareness, there creates the lack of the attention,
underestimation of the risks, reduction of the coordination and many more (Lerman and et.al.,
2019).
The fatigue within the organization leads to the errors and the accidents and this is considered as
one of the root cause of the major employee turnover within the organization. It has been found
that the Boutique Build company is also facing this issue and due to this these problems are also
increasing in the business.
Signs of fatigue:
The fatigue is the biggest problem which reduces the overall productivity of the employees or the
staff members as well as this increases the mistakes done by the employees within their job. The
mistakes which are made due to the fatigue within the workplace can be prevented when the
business is investing in the health and safety environment. There are various signs of fatigue
within the organization such as-
 Weariness
 Tiredness
 Sleepiness
 Mentally tired
 Physically tired
 Reduction of productivity
 reduction of alertness
These are the most common signs which are seen within the employees in which they are
suffering from the fatigue (Dawson and et.al., 2019). This enables the company to get successful
and becomes one of the major issue for the increase in the employee turnover.
Risks associated with fatigue and strategies for management of risk:
There are various risks key factors associated with the fatigue within the Boutique Build
organization are such as-
Psychological and psychosocial factors: The stress, anxiety as well as the depression are the
main reasons due to which the risk of the fatigue is increasing within the employees. This is
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