For employers in the oil and gas industry, fatigue is a major challenge. Fatigued employees can mean serious occupational risks, as well as billions of dollars annually in lost productivity, absenteeism, and other expenses. Recognizing this problem, the American Petroleum Institute (API) has developed ANSI/API Recommended Practice 755: Fatigue Risk Management Systems for Personnel in the Refining and Petrochemical Industries. An important part of this recommended practice is its guidelines for hours of service.

This paper describes the challenges with employee fatigue and addresses how Kronos solutions can help to minimize fatigue by streamlining processes for complying with the hours of service guidelines recommended by API.

This white paper discusses ways to reduce costs and increase productivity with an automated absence management solution.

This white paper discusses how workforce management technology applies lean principles to improve the productivity of back-office processes.

Learn how Kronos Workforce Central automated workforce management solution is accurately tracking time & attendance and manage leave, allowing Chesapeake to improve productivity and mitigate compliance issues.

Get a sneak peek into Lean Labor, a book by Gregg Gordon, Senior Director of Manufacturing Industry Marketing at Kronos, Incorporated, that focuses on the role labor can play in improving throughput, quality and performance for global competitive advantage.

Download the first chapter of this must-read guidebook and meet Graham, a manufacturing operations executive who must reduce his company’s product unit cost by 10 percent in a year or risk moving operations overseas. Graham’s story is interwoven with ideas for motivating cultural change and techniques for applying Lean principles to workforce management. It also includes real-world case studies that present a flexible framework for implementation.

Global trade and manufacturing are expanding rapidly, and that means that our workforces have to evolve to keep pace with demand, technology, and trends that are driving the world’s economy. But many U.S. manufacturers are facing difficulties making that transition, including the creation of a clear strategy for managing a global workforce. Research gathered from a recent global survey reveals distinct trends and strategies that U.S. manufacturers should consider when expanding to other countries.

The results of the survey, along with practical advice from industry experts, are compiled in this paper and designed to provide insight into global trade, investment, and workforce trends and best practices — as well as supply recommendations on workforce strategies that manufacturers can employ to improve their global competitiveness.

Description: Learn why poor time and labor data collection is a common weak point in any corporate infrastructure, one that usually escapes detection and can leak hundreds of thousands, even millions, of dollars each year.
An ERP system is only as good as the data being fed into it. Often ERP payroll modules don't deliver a return because they aren't being fed the right data, at the right time, in the right level of detail. That's what causes the ERP system to leak.  Perhaps it’s a weekly trickle of employee fraud. It could even be a broken mainline, the result of poorly designed interfaces, a flawed implementation, or an overextended ERP system.
Find out if you have a problem and how, by attacking your time and labor data pipeline, you can streamline business processes and cut costs.

Description: Kronos for Energy automates workforce management policies that help improve workplace safety and meet documentation requirements for regulatory compliance. With Kronos workforce management solutions, energy and resources companies can create a safer workforce by automating the enforcement of policies for hiring, scheduling, tracking employee training, and documenting safety incidents while maintaining compliance.