Posted By Simon Carrier
Good afternoon

We are putting together some guidance for our Engineers who are periodically called out on an evening/night to attend customers sites. Would anyone be willing to provide me with information on how they address the hours worked on site and when they expect people to report in for normal work. For example if an Engineer is called out at say 9pm and works until 2am when would you expect them in for normal work.

regards

Posted By Tabs
Keep it sensible, we have all had late nights and know that getting to bed at 3am is not going to be good if your next day start at 7am.

You don't say what the work is but as engineers, it is probable that shoddy work would have an impact on others - so you need to be sure that they are awake.

12 hours is used to give a social life too - 8 hours sleep is the current thinking for 'normal' (allow for travel of course).

It could be argued that an occasional late night and 6 hours sleep would not be extraordinary for many people, but it should be occasional only.

We would expect our engineers to sleep in a local hotel and come in as soon as reasonable - finish at 2am, come to work at 10am or thereabouts.