The future of shift & fatigue management software for rail

The cloud-based SaaS Signal© solution enables contractors, train operators, plant operators and staffing agencies to automatically plan worker shifts, calculate compliant fatigue, control exceedances, apply working regulation safety rules, issue digital timesheets and manage competencies from a single cloud based system.

Signal© complies with the Network Rail fatigue standard that has been introduced in October 2022 along with customisable rules for other scenarios.

Some of the rail industry's most successful companies rely on Signal

Stay compliant, save money & work faster

Schedule compliant rail staff in seconds. Book by availability, preferred and top rated. Communicate with rail workers automatically, ensure working regulation compliance and see real-time fatigue scores. Signal also provides pay rate management and management of agencies and their staff. Signal contributes to your net reduction of your carbon footprint.

  • A proven solution that works in a rail environment
  • Truly track fatigue of workers across the supply chain
  • Reduce head office payroll, admin and overhead costs
  • Minimise under utilised staff
  • Reduce time spent managing the roster
  • Reduce travel time of workers
  • Reduce your carbon foot print
  • Reduce no shows
  • Automate communication with workers
  • Automate compliance and fatigue tracking
  • Eliminate manual timesheet entry for payroll
  • Reduce timesheet authorisation times
  • Maintain machine operators and plant
  • Automate actual shift times
  • Automate worker fatigue calculations
  • Stay compliant
  • Increase accuracy of data capture
  • Provide more information for decision making

     

Real-Time Fatigue

Signal© automatically calculates fatigue in real-time for planned and actual hours, alerting management and workers in an instant.

Rail Rostering

Fast, high volume shift booking with working regulation alerts & controls. Manage cancellations, no shows and create reoccurring shift patterns.

Digital Timesheets on any device

Timesheets on any device, with digital signatures, GPS stamp and authorisation process. Automatically generate PDF timesheets based on any template design.

Signal Safety Guard Algorithm

Signal truly protects the workers safety at the point of rostering by combining real-time fatigue, travel time, working regulation, competence and site experience to ensure the right schedule is developed from a safety perspective.

  • Planned & Actual Fatigue
  • Planned & Actual Risk
  • Max Hours per Shift
  • Week Max Shifts in a Row
  • Door to Door Time
  • Travel Time
  • Minimum Break
  • Min Hours per Shift
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  • Custom Regulations
  • More than 60 Hours in 7 rolling days
  • More than 72 Hours in 7 rolling days

 

Master Vendor

Signal© provides full second tier supplier management. Main contractors can share shifts to agencies, and agencies can share shifts to second tier suppliers.

Travel Time & Working Time

Signal© calculates door to door time from the workers home location to trackside and can adapt to other accommodation addresses and hotels. Stabling points can also be used to cater for track machine operators and drivers.

Rail Specific Compliance Monitoring

Real-time coloured coded compliance to control passports, visa expiries and custom compliance levels for certain clients. Manage equipment, compliance documents and rail specific items such as Medicals and PTS.

The future of shift management

The Rail Industry faces some specific safety challenges when scheduling worker shifts. Shift administrators need to be able to manage hundreds of shifts quickly, automate safety calculations and engage with workers. Signal has been developed specifically to address these challenges and it replaces cumbersome, offline spreadsheets and dated systems. Signal’s key focus is safety and has been preventing danger to workers before they reach track side.

Signal provides a new, rail specific, innovative approach and user experience combined with the depth of functionality required for small, medium and large contractors and suppliers.

Our implementation strategy was ambitious from the outset. Our vision was to improve and transform our existing processes supported by Signal, using technology to sync to our multiple key internal core operating systems to ensure we reduced any potential waste and duplication of data processing. Chris and his team have supported this from day one. We’ve met many hurdles along the way, however we’ve worked closely as a team to overcome these and achieve our desired goal. A big advantage for us has been having our own Customer Success Manager from Signal, one main point of contact understanding our Murphy position throughout, and communicating challenges to the appropriate areas within Signal for timely resolve.

From initial research and demos of the system through to project delivery, we’ve always felt valued and respected. We look forward to continuously improving together.

Claire Cronin, Head of Assurance

Signal has streamlined our workforce management saving us around 50% of the time and has almost completely automated our timesheet entry allowing us to focus more on customer service and safety.

Katie Hancock, Morson