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 for Ireland
Signal Software is a smart workforce management platform that helps rail teams plan and manage rostering, compliance, fatigue risk and workforce data with complete visibility and control.
From commuter networks in Dublin to intercity, regional and freight operations across Ireland, our cloud-based solution streamlines workforce planning and supports safer, fully compliant operations in line with Irish workplace law and EU rail regulations.
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 Ireland Rail Requirements
Signal gives rail teams real-time insight into cumulative duty hours, upcoming rest periods and role-specific compliance, making it easier to plan shifts safely and consistently.
Signal operates in line with requirements from the Commission for Railway Regulation (CRR), the national safety authority for the Republic of Ireland. CRR oversees safety management systems (SMS) for all Irish railway organisations, ensuring compliance with national and EU rail safety legislation. Signal helps rail teams manage staff competence, auditing, risk management and emergency preparedness as part of a certified SMS.
- A proven solution designed for rail environments
- Track worker fatigue across the entire supply chain
- Reduce head office payroll, admin, and overhead costs
- Minimise under-utilised staff
- Reduce time spent managing the roster
- Reduce worker travel time
- Reduce your carbon footprint
- Reduce no-shows
- Automate communication with workers
- Automate compliance and fatigue tracking in line with Irish workplace law, EU rail standards and CRR SMS requirements
- 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 better information for decision-making
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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.
Real-Time Fatigue Oversight Across Every Shift
Schedules are only as safe as the data behind them. Signal highlights potential fatigue risks before a shift begins by analysing working hours, travel, rest periods and role suitability.
Workforce planners gain clear visibility into how workloads, travel and rest interact, helping them make safer, compliant and more efficient scheduling decisions.
Shifts are monitored in real time for fatigue and related safety factors, including:
- 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
These metrics give planners real-time insight into fatigue risk, helping them schedule safely and remain compliant with Irish working time rules.
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.
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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.
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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
Real-time data supports faster decision-making, clearer reporting and safer outcomes across daily operations and long-term planning.
Intelligent Rostering
Schedule workers based on availability, skills and fatigue exposure while keeping compliance visible with Irish working time regulations and EU rail rules.
Real‑Time Visibility
See who’s working, where they are assigned and where compliance or fatigue risk needs attention.
Digital Timesheets
Log hours securely via mobile or tablet, with optional GPS tagging and e‑signatures. Automatically feed into payroll.
Contractor & Labour Pool Management
Consolidate subcontractor and agency data in a single place, viewing hours, credentials and shift history.
Audit‑Ready Recordkeeping
Instant access to detailed shift, fatigue, and compliance logs - aligned with CRR guidance for SMS audits and regulatory review in Ireland.
Book a personalised demo today to discover how Signal ensures safer, more efficient rail operations in Ireland.
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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