Sleep & Shift Work: Awake When It Matters
Included with TrainMeUK — no separate course purchase required.
Understand fatigue as a safety risk, know the working time limits, plan sleep around shifts, and design and report rota patterns that keep people alert.
- Assign to
- Shift workers and the people who plan their rotas
- Duration
- 32 minutes
- Evidence
- 11-question quiz
- Your version
- Editable
What they will be able to do
- Describe fatigue as a safety risk employers must manage.
- State the main working time limits for shift and night workers.
- Plan sleep around nights and changeovers.
- Recognise risky rota patterns and report fatigue without blame.
The course
- 01Fatigue and safety
- 02The limits
- 03Sleeping around shifts
- 04Rotas and reporting
The decision they practise
In the main activity, “Rewrite Kofi’s sleep plan”, learners rewrite a realistic document line by line and see the effect of each choice. In “04:35”, a face-to-face conversation, learners practise what to say and do when the other person pushes back. The wrong options are things a well-meaning person might genuinely say, and the feedback explains why each one is tempting. Short animations show “Alertness through the night” and “Kofi’s 24 hours”.
How you know they finished
The 11-question quiz mixes multiple choice, matching and sequencing questions and returns to the opening story.
Relevant legislation and guidance
The course draws on these. Which ones apply depends on the organisation and the role. Finishing the course is a training record.
- Working Time Regulations 1998
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
How this course is built
Interactive activity
Learners practise the decision in the course, including what to say when someone pushes back.
Edit it in the builder
On Growth and above, adapt the scenarios and wording to your own workplace, policies and reporting procedures.
A record they finished
The 11-question quiz closes the course, so you can show who completed it.
Related courses
TrainMeUK course library
Ready to make Sleep & Shift Work easier?
Give your team access to practical, interactive training, with automated assignments, reminders and completion records managed in one place.