Best practice rostering

Effective rostering of employees requires collaboration between employees and management. Rosters should be based on a sound risk management approach to ensure workplace fatigue is managed to minimise its effects and related risks on the workplace, employees, patients and others. Some workers are at a higher risk of fatigue because their work typically involves some or all of the factors which contribute to fatigue. This information sheet outlines safe roster design, fatique management strategies, when should the roster be posted, breaks between shifts, on-call, rostering night duty and Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009.