Welbees Consulting

Experts in stress and fatigue risk management for airlines

Your safety is our top priority

Based on internationally recognised expertise, Welbees helps you transform your work organisation to better manage human factors risks.

Security

Preventing accidents

at work

Health

Protecting the well-being and

health of employees

Performance

Reduce employee absenteeism

and presenteeism

Our Methodology

Our goal is to provide you with operational scientific support for the implementation of a risk management system for stress and fatigue of your employees

01

Qualitative analysis

Interviews, Focus Groups & Literature Review

02

Data collection

Real Data Collection & Targeted Stress & Fatigue Surveys

03

Quantitative analysis

Statistical analysis & Predictive modelling of psychosocial risk factors

04

Recommendations

Implementation of prevention measures and monitoring of their effectiveness

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THE EXPERT'S WORD

Our training courses aim to meet the needs of the current context. They are the result of several years of work by our team of scientific and operational experts, who regularly update them.

Philippe Cabon

- Doctor in Neuroscience and Specialist in Fatigue, Sleep and Chronobiology

- Member of the ICAO Working Group for the development of recommended practices and guidelines for FRMS

- Member of the Air New Zealand Independent Vigilance Audit Committee

Examples of supports

Audit of the organisation of work around fatigue risk management

Elements analysed

Procedures and reference documents for the management of fatigue-related risks within the organisation (e.g. procedures for monitoring events/accidents, feedback system, etc.)
Levels of safety culture maturity among the different categories of employees in the company
Organisational charts of dedicated resources

Methodology

Audit of your organisation and procedures by carrying out an analysis of existing documents and a series of interviews with key contributors in your organisation (« gap analysis »)
Quantitative study (smartphone or web) on safety culture and fatigue risk based on a scientific methodology.

Deliverables

Audit of the approaches and processes put in place by the company concerning the management and prevention of risks associated with staff fatigue (working hours, workload, organisational factors).
Results of the quantitative study on safety culture and perception of fatigue risk among employees: statistical analyses and modelling of the main risk factors, based on data collected in the field
Recommendations on the implementation of measures to improve your fatigue risk management system (incident follow-up procedures, employee feedback process, …)

Analysis of work schedules and work rhythms

Elements analysed

The components of your organisation’s schedules :

length of shifts
break time
sequence of shifts
start times of shifts

Depending on the variability of your company’s schedules, we conduct an analysis over periods ranging from a few weeks to several months.

Methodology

Based on our experience with different industries we have developed our own methodology for analysing schedules
Quantitative analysis of schedules over a long period
Qualitative analysis of critical periods by our consultants
Analysis of the procedures and methodology used for the construction of schedules (rules, prioritisation, organisation, software, etc.)

Deliverables

Highlighting shifts and shift sequences in schedules that generate fatigue
Identification of organisational factors that contribute to a significant level of risk associated with fatigue
Audit of planning methods
Recommendations for improving the construction of schedules and a list of the main schedule-related contributing factors that have an impact on employee fatigue

Assessment of employee stress and fatigue

Elements analysed

Declarative data: daily data collection on working hours and activity, sleep diaries of your employees with the TimeWiks mobile application
Depending on the objectives of the study we can also collect objective data on sleep using dedicated devices (actimetry)
We also collect individual information on the profile of your employees, while respecting the confidentiality of the data

Methodology

We have developed the Welbees Analytics tool to digitise and automate data collection from your employees. Our application is based on extensive work in partnership with our clients and UX (User Experience) experts to ensure ease of use for employees
We use machine learning algorithms to model the collected data and provide an accurate explanation of fatigue risk to better predict it!
Our algorithms are adapted to the data of each company’s employees, which allows us to assess the specific risk factors as close as possible to your activity

Deliverables

Assessment of employee stress and fatigue
Recommendations and implementation of measures for the individual and organisational management of the risk of fatigue (naps, breaks, working hours, workload…)
Communication elements for employees
Training and raising of the awareness of managers and employees

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