Count the whole journey
Show worked and door-to-door totals together. Recorded travel at both ends helps establish the interval before the next start.
- Timesheet corrections update the fatigue record
- Recorded call-outs and weekend work included
Advanced Fatigue Manager
Spot fatigue risk.
Spot fatigue risk.
Before the next shift.
Advanced Fatigue Manager is Unibuild’s fatigue management software for UK contractors. It reads recorded hours from your timesheets, adds travel at both ends, and checks rest, consecutive shifts and nights against your policy. The planner and the operative are alerted, and the decision is recorded.
- Unlimited users
- No charge per alert
- One monthly fee
Supports your fatigue risk assessment. The decision on fitness for work stays with your team.
The hours behind the riskA 12-hour shift.
A 12-hour shift.
A 15-hour day.
With 90 minutes of travel each way, six 12-hour shifts add up to 72 hours on site and 90 hours door to door. Keeping both totals visible gives a planner a fuller picture.
Explore an example week
Adjust the figures to see the difference travel makes. This illustration is separate from the live platform. To score a week shift by shift, with start times and the published risk weightings, use the fatigue calculator.
Assumes identical shifts and journeys each day. On-site time includes breaks; door-to-door time is not a statutory working-time calculation or a fatigue score.
Illustrative totals
15hDoor to door per day
72hOn site per week
90hDoor to door per week
Travel adds 18 hours across this week. Review the pattern against your policy, including breaks, night work and recovery time.
How it worksFrom the gate scan
From the gate scan
to a recorded decision.
The timesheet supplies the recorded hours. Your team sets the limits and decides what action to take when a working pattern needs attention.
- 01
Record
Each QR clock-in records the day. Travel and any additional work go in the same record.
- 02
Check
Compare shift length, door-to-door time, rest, consecutive shifts and nights against your rules.
- 03
Act
Notify the people who can change the plan. The operative receives an app notification too.
- 04
Evidence
Keep the warning, named decision and override reason with the hours behind them.
| The check | Spreadsheet | Advanced Fatigue Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Source of hours | Keyed in after the week | Each QR clock-in, as it happens |
| Door to door | Travel usually left out | Travel added at both ends |
| Rest between shifts | Worked out by hand, if at all | Checked against your minimum rest |
| Consecutive nights | Counted when somebody looks | Counted from the same clock-ins |
| The warning | Found after the shift | Sent to the planner and operative before it |
| The evidence | A copy of the sheet | The warning, the decision and the override reason, kept together |
Inside the moduleOne record.
One record.
Clearer decisions.
Use the hours already captured in Unibuild to support planning, notify your workforce and prepare reports.
Set limits for your work
Configure shift length, travel-inclusive totals, minimum rest, rolling hours and consecutive day or night shifts.
- Rules by company, role or project
- Separate approaching-limit and breach alerts
See the status beside the name
Fatigue status appears in the labour run planner, beside each person you are assigning to the next job.
- Approved leave and rest days visible
- A reason recorded for a planner's override
Tell the office and operative
Send alerts to named recipients by email and in the platform, with WhatsApp where configured. Operatives receive push notifications in your firm’s own staff app. It is published on the App Store and Google Play under your company’s name and icon.
- Android and iOS
- Notification delivery and read status recorded
Keep nights in view
Review night hours, consecutive nights and the recorded recovery interval. See the pattern when a person moves back to days.
- Night hours shown separately
- Health assessment dates tracked in reminders
Keep the decision with the record
Every amendment is kept with who made it and when. The original timesheet entry and any override reason stay with it.
- Every amendment kept in the history
- Reports for previous date ranges
Reports you can hand overThe hours.
The hours.
The warning. The response.
Export a PDF on your letterhead or a spreadsheet for analysis. Use the same underlying hours that feed the alerts.
What a fatigue report contains
- Time
- Worked hours, door-to-door totals and recorded rest intervals.
- Pattern
- Consecutive shifts, night hours and nights worked.
- Exceptions
- Limits approached or crossed, and who was notified.
- Response
- The recorded decision, override reason and amendment history.
Built for contractorsDifferent trades.
Different trades.
Different working patterns.
Long journeys, night work, call-outs and consecutive shifts can create fatigue risk across construction. The controls should match the work and the people doing it.
Rail & infrastructure
Possessions, travel and safety critical work. Support your fatigue arrangements with recorded hours and decisions; check the applicable Network Rail standard and contract requirements.
Highways & surfacing
Night closures, changing locations and consecutive nights. Keep journeys and recovery intervals visible when planning the team.
Scaffolding, roofing & facades
Early starts, physical work and time at height. Look at the full day when reviewing the next assignment.
Groundworks & demolition
Plant operations and work that overruns. Make recorded overtime part of the next planning decision.
M&E & site services
Shutdowns, standby rotas and call-outs. Capture additional hours so an ordinary-looking rota does not hide a long working week.
Principal contractors & fleet operators
Include people who scan your gates. Establish how work elsewhere is declared, and review driving records separately where drivers' hours rules apply.
UK guidance & dutiesSet the policy.
Set the policy.
Keep the evidence.
Software supports your arrangements, and compliance stays with the employer. These references cover Great Britain. Northern Ireland has separate legislation. Confirm the rules, exceptions and contract requirements that apply to your work.
Managing fatigue risk
Employers must assess and control fatigue risks. HSE explains that staying within working-time rules is not enough on its own. Consider workload, breaks, sleep, shift patterns and recovery alongside recorded hours.
HSE: fatigue at workWorking time & rest
For most adult workers, the framework includes a 48-hour average working week, normally over 17 weeks; 11 hours' daily rest; weekly rest; and a 20-minute break when working more than six hours. Exceptions and compensatory rest can apply. A weekly-hours opt-out does not remove the duty to manage fatigue.
GOV.UK: weekly hours Rest breaksNight workers
The general limit is an average of eight hours in each 24-hour period. For night work involving special hazards or heavy physical or mental strain, the limit is eight hours in any 24 hours. Health assessments must be offered. Check the applicable exceptions and reference period.
GOV.UK: night working hoursRail safety critical work
ROGS regulation 25 requires arrangements to manage fatigue in safety critical work. Set rules against the current standard and client requirements, including NR/L2/OHS/003 where applicable. Unibuild supports your own fatigue risk management arrangements, which remain the basis of your compliance.
ORR: managing rail staff fatigueRoad transport
Driving limits and road-transport working time have their own rules. Unibuild records site, yard and travel hours alongside them.
GOV.UK: road-transport working timeConstruction duties
Under CDM 2015, regulation 13 covers principal contractor duties; regulation 15 covers contractor duties. Site records support planning and monitoring.
HSE: principal contractors ContractorsReferences checked . Follow the official guidance for definitions, exceptions and updates.
Before you decideAsked before
Asked before
the first alert.
The practical details of introducing Advanced Fatigue Manager to your firm.
Does it count travel and rest, not just hours on site?
Yes. Travel is tracked separately on the timesheet and added back at both ends, so a 12-hour shift with 90 minutes each way shows as a 15-hour day door to door. Recorded travel sets the rest interval before the next start. Rolling hours, consecutive shifts and nights are counted from the same clock-ins, with night hours shown separately. Nobody keys hours in for it: it reads the scans you already take.
Who is warned, and when?
The people who can change the plan, before the next shift. Approaching-limit and breach alerts reach named recipients by email and in the platform, with WhatsApp where configured. The operative gets a push notification in your firm’s own staff app. Fatigue status also shows beside each name in the labour run, so the planner sees it while assigning the next job.
Who decides whether somebody works, and what record is kept?
Your team decides. Advanced Fatigue Manager supports your fatigue risk assessment, and the judgement on fitness for work stays with the employer. Each warning is kept with the named decision, any override reason and the hours behind it. Every amendment is kept in the history with who made it and when.
What reports can we hand to a client or an auditor?
A PDF on your letterhead, or a spreadsheet for analysis, built from the same hours that feed the alerts. Choose a view per person over a date range, per project including subcontract and agency operatives, by exception, or across projects and months. Each report shows the hours, the warnings, who was notified and the decision recorded.
Does it cover subcontractors and agency labour?
Yes. People who use your gate clock-in can appear in the fatigue record and the project report, with no per-user charge. Your own arrangements set how hours worked elsewhere are declared.
What if a timesheet is incomplete or corrected?
Approved timesheet corrections update the fatigue record, with amendments kept in its history. Clock-ins made on a site with no signal are stored on the phone and synced the moment it is back in signal, so they count like any other. A missing entry is resolved on the timesheet, and a missing shift is never treated as proof of rest.
Can we set our own limits?
Yes. Rules are agreed during implementation and can differ by company, role or project. They cover shift length, door-to-door time, minimum rest, consecutive shifts, rolling hours and night work. Set them against your policy and the requirements that apply to your work.
Does it make us compliant with Network Rail requirements?
It provides the hours, recorded rest intervals, shift patterns and decisions to support your own arrangements, which carry the compliance duty. Review the applicable standard with your assurance team, and bring any required report format to the demonstration.
Can you tailor the module to our process?
Yes. Unibuild is bespoke software, shaped to the way each firm already works. Customer-specific rules, forms and reports are built for you, and changes asked for after go-live are included in the monthly fee rather than charged at a day rate. A fatigue index or a connection to another system is built in the same way.
What software do UK trade and construction firms use to manage working hours and fatigue risk?
Unibuild’s Advanced Fatigue Manager works from the timesheet rather than a separate spreadsheet. Every QR clock-in records the day. The module checks shift length, door-to-door time, rest between shifts, rolling hours, consecutive shifts and nights against limits you set by company, role or project. Alerts reach named people before the next shift, and the operative gets a push notification. Reports export as PDF on your letterhead.
How is it priced?
One flat monthly fee, quoted for your firm, with unlimited users and no per-alert charge. It is sized to your firm when quoted, fixed for three years, and covers every module. Ask for a written quote or read how pricing works.
Can we export the records if we leave?
Yes. Reports export as PDFs or spreadsheets. The cancellation policy sets out three months of access at no charge for exporting, and a clean dataset supplied within five working days. Plan your record retention around the duties that apply to your business.
See it with your teamBring a working week.
Bring a working week.
See the whole picture.
In a 30-minute demo, follow the recorded hours through the planner, alerts and reports. Bring your fatigue policy and a reporting requirement to discuss.
Book a 30-minute demoPrefer to talk first? +44 7587 557546 or email us.
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for your firm.
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