Understanding Your Absence Rate
Kindle Edition
by Dr Angela Moore (Author), Alec Jezewski (Author)
Understanding Your Absence Rate Kindle Edition
by Dr Angela Moore (Author), Alec Jezewski (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
Do you know how to calculate your Absence Rate?
This book not only includes easy to follow examples of how to calculate your Absence Rate, but also shows you how to use your Absence Rate to predict how absences will occur in the future.
This book has look-up tables which convert Absence Rate in to the number you would expect to be off shift. On an Office Hours shift pattern in a year there are 260 shifts. So if you have a 2.5% Absence Rate and 10 people on shift you would go to the relevant table (table 25) and see how many you would expect to see off shift. On 202 days you would expect no one to be absent. On 52 days per year you would expect one person to be absent and on six days per year you would expect two people to be off.
Hence you can plan your absence procedures on a maximum of two people being off because it is highly unlikely that three people would be absent on the same day.
The look-up tables range from 0.5-10% Absence Rates for up to 50 people on shift. The tables cover 100 shifts per year (probability), 260 shifts per year (office hours), 365 shifts per year (each day), 730 shifts per year (12-hour shifts for 24/7 operations) and 1095 shifts per year (8-hour shifts for 24/7 operations). This can be scaled using the 100 shifts per year to make it usable for any combination of shifts.
If you want to understand your Absence Rate then you need this book. Planning for the future means that you can run your department etc. more effectively. Absence is very expensive. Firstly there is the direct cost of replacing the person. This book helps you make informed decisions on how you could most cost effectively cover for absence. However there is also the indirect costs of absence. The loss of one person from a shift can be devastating. There is an old joke: I was sitting on a park bench watching the world go by, when I saw a man come along with a spade and dig a series of holes. Then another man came along shortly afterwards and filled in the holes. I watched them for some time wondering what they were about before approaching them and asked them what they were doing. “Well you see”, the first man replied, “we are employed by the council to plant trees. I dig the hole, Bob plants the tress and Terry here fills in the holes. Only Bob is ill today.”
If we take another example in manufacturing: if one key skill is missing then the production for that shift is not only halted but also there is a knock on effect to the other shifts. The goods made by the previous shift can't be processed and could spoil and the following shift doesn't have goods to be processed because they were not produced.
Even when the absentee is not a key skill the shift will suffer. Absenteeism causes stress to the remaining workers, they have to work harder to make up for the loss of their colleague and the work is slower and can be of lower quality. The costs of replacing missing personnel are often cheaper than the costs of running short. This book is to help you make cost efficient Absence Management Plans so that the operation is unaffected by absenteeism.
This book has look-up tables which convert Absence Rate in to the number you would expect to be off shift. On an Office Hours shift pattern in a year there are 260 shifts. So if you have a 2.5% Absence Rate and 10 people on shift you would go to the relevant table (table 25) and see how many you would expect to see off shift. On 202 days you would expect no one to be absent. On 52 days per year you would expect one person to be absent and on six days per year you would expect two people to be off.
Hence you can plan your absence procedures on a maximum of two people being off because it is highly unlikely that three people would be absent on the same day.
The look-up tables range from 0.5-10% Absence Rates for up to 50 people on shift. The tables cover 100 shifts per year (probability), 260 shifts per year (office hours), 365 shifts per year (each day), 730 shifts per year (12-hour shifts for 24/7 operations) and 1095 shifts per year (8-hour shifts for 24/7 operations). This can be scaled using the 100 shifts per year to make it usable for any combination of shifts.
If you want to understand your Absence Rate then you need this book. Planning for the future means that you can run your department etc. more effectively. Absence is very expensive. Firstly there is the direct cost of replacing the person. This book helps you make informed decisions on how you could most cost effectively cover for absence. However there is also the indirect costs of absence. The loss of one person from a shift can be devastating. There is an old joke: I was sitting on a park bench watching the world go by, when I saw a man come along with a spade and dig a series of holes. Then another man came along shortly afterwards and filled in the holes. I watched them for some time wondering what they were about before approaching them and asked them what they were doing. “Well you see”, the first man replied, “we are employed by the council to plant trees. I dig the hole, Bob plants the tress and Terry here fills in the holes. Only Bob is ill today.”
If we take another example in manufacturing: if one key skill is missing then the production for that shift is not only halted but also there is a knock on effect to the other shifts. The goods made by the previous shift can't be processed and could spoil and the following shift doesn't have goods to be processed because they were not produced.
Even when the absentee is not a key skill the shift will suffer. Absenteeism causes stress to the remaining workers, they have to work harder to make up for the loss of their colleague and the work is slower and can be of lower quality. The costs of replacing missing personnel are often cheaper than the costs of running short. This book is to help you make cost efficient Absence Management Plans so that the operation is unaffected by absenteeism.
Pages 159
Authors Dr. Angela Moore & Alec Jezewski
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