Real-Time Fatigue
Signal© automatically calculates fatigue in real-time for planned and actual hours, alerting management and workers in an instant.
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Rail Workforce & Fatigue Management Software for Canada
Signal Software is an intelligent workforce management platform built for rail operators, contractors, and infrastructure teams operating across Canada. Our cloud-based system simplifies rostering, automates compliance with Transport Canada fatigue and duty regulations, and gives real-time visibility into workforce status; no spreadsheets, no guesswork.
From high-volume freight networks in the West to infrastructure upgrades in Ontario and Québec, Signal helps you deliver safe, compliant rail operations, every day.
With 96% of CRSA workforce now using digital timesheets, CRSA has successfully optimised their rostering processes, saving valuable time while ensuring a higher level of accuracy. By utilising Signal's versatile features, CRSA has gained greater control over fatigue management, leading to a more efficient and safer work environment.
The integration of Signal into Network Rail's operations has not only streamlined shift management but also significantly improved efficiency, compliance, and fatigue monitoring. By leveraging Signal's versatile features, Network Rail has successfully met their complex rostering requirements, resulting in substantial time savings and enhanced workforce management.
Signal's implementation revolutionised Flannery Plant Hire's operations, promoting efficiency, compliance, and overall excellence in workforce management.
Chris and his team have been invaluable from day one, helping us overcome challenges and achieve our goals. Having a dedicated Customer Success Manager at Signal has been a major advantage, ensuring seamless communication and quick resolutions. From research and demos to project delivery, we’ve always felt valued and respected, and we look forward to continued improvement together.
McGinley derives further benefits from Signal, including Minimum Billing Hours and streamlined Pay and Charge Rates management, helping them optimise their operations. In partnering with Signal, McGinley has achieved a remarkable transformation in rail worker management, enhancing efficiency, compliance, and overall operational effectiveness.
Some of the rail industry's most successful companies rely on Signal
Built for Canadian Rail Requirements
Rail operations in Canada are governed by strict safety standards under the Railway Safety Act, with particular emphasis on managing fatigue and duty hours for safety-critical staff.
Signal Software supports full compliance with:
- Duty and Rest Period Rules, including work limits, mandatory rest, and night work restrictions
- Fatigue Management System (FMS) frameworks recommended by Transport Canada
- Accurate, audit-ready timekeeping and scheduling records for all staff and contractors
Whether you manage long-distance operations, regional railways, or third-party labour, Signal ensures your workforce plans align with the law—and the realities on the ground.
- 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
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.
Integrated Fatigue Management — Live, Not Manual
In rail, fatigue isn’t a theoretical problem. It's a live operational risk, and one that regulators are watching closely.
That’s why Signal integrates fatigue risk directly into your scheduling, rostering, and time-tracking workflows. Every shift, for every employee, is automatically monitored for fatigue exposure based on:
- Length of duty
- Consecutive working days
- Overnight or split shifts
- Travel time to and from remote work locations
- Actual attendance data captured from digital timesheets
There’s no manual input and no exporting, just a continuous, behind-the-scenes system that highlights fatigue risk in real time, so you can make safe decisions with confidence.
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.
Smart Tools for Safer, More Efficient Rail Operations
Intelligent Rostering
Schedule staff based on availability, skills, and fatigue exposure—while staying fully compliant with Canadian rail duty regulations.
Real-Time Visibility
Track who’s working, who’s at risk of fatigue, and where your compliance gaps are—all from one simple dashboard.
Digital Timesheets
Log time securely via mobile or tablet, with optional GPS tagging and e-signatures. Everything syncs automatically to payroll and compliance systems.
Contractor & Labour Pool Management
Consolidate subcontractor data in one place. See hours, credentials, and shift history for every worker, regardless of employer.
Audit-Ready Recordkeeping
Instant access to detailed shift, fatigue, and compliance logs—ready for inspection by safety officers or Transport Canada auditors.
Book a Demo
Whether you operate nationally or regionally, Signal Software gives you the tools to manage fatigue, compliance, and workforce risk—without the manual overhead.
Book your personalised demo today and discover how Signal can support safe, efficient rail operations across Canada.
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.
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.
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