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Fatigue Management Common Solution Curriculum Course Descriptions

Managing your workforce to maintain compliance with the United States
Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) Fitness for Duty (FFD)
regulations (NRC 10 CFR Part 26) can be a challenge.

EmpCenter’s Fatigue Management Solution is specifically designed to
help you stay in compliance. We provide a variety of courses to help you
understand how to use the Fatigue Management Common Solution, ranging
from comprehensive courses to quick, targeted courses delivered over the
Web that can address specific topics.

Please click on a course title below to open or close the details.

FM-01: Fatigue Management – Using the Common Solution

Course Description: This coAttendees learn to manage their own or their employees’ schedules proactively to comply with NRC Rule 10 CFR Part 26.

Audience: This course should be taken by personnel who manage employees who are subject to compliance with NRC Rule 10 CFR Part 26 (Fitness for Duty).

Prerequisites: None

Format: Instructor led, classroom

Duration: Two days

Course Content:

  • Assigning compliant schedule cycles to employees
  • Creating schedule rotations
  • Using admin codes
  • Calling in employees based on NRC compliance rules
  • Entering waivers and fatigue assessments
  • Detecting future fatigue management violations
  • Running NRC reports
FM-02: Fatigue Management – Database Schema
APA 6.5 RCH 2010

Course Description: This course provides detailed information about the data stored in EmpCenter. Attendees learn how to access the data for creating useful reports. Additional fatigue management information is included. (Note: Customers interested in integrating reports into EmpCenter with Crystal Reports should take Writing Reports with EmpCenter (EC-01).

Audience: This course is intended for Fatigue Management customers interested in building reports or views of the data within EmpCenter Fatigue Management and EmpCenter Time and Attendance.

Prerequisites: Attendees should have a good understanding of SQL and basic database concepts.

Format: Instructor led, classroom

Duration: One day

Course Content:

  • Introduction to EmpCenter Time and Attendance database structure
  • Introduction to most commonly used tables and queries for:
  • Employees and Assignments
  • Pay Periods
  • Time sheets
  • Exceptions
  • Accrual Management
  • Schedules
  • Fatigue Management data tables
FM-04: Fatigue Management Common Solution for the Common User

Course Description: A two-day exploration of the NRC 10 CFR Part 26 as implemented in Fatigue Management Common Solution. Upon completion of this course, attendees will fully understand how the rules are evaluated, how to enter time in the system, how to create and assign schedule cycles, how to use admin codes, and how amendments and approvals function within Fatigue Management.

Audience: This course should be taken by personnel who are subject to or who manage employees who are subject to compliance with NRC Rule 10 CFR Part 26 (Fitness for Duty).

Prerequisites: None

Format: Instructor led, classroom

Duration: One day

Course Content:

  • Overview of Addendum A
  • Overview of EmpCenter
  • FM Rules
    • Maximum work hour rules
    • Minimum break before shift rule
    • B 34/9 rule
    • MDO Rules – Online, Transition, and Outage
    • Average 54
  • How to enter time
    • Time Record Types
    • FM Codes and Time Codes
    • Covered Status Override
  • Schedule Cycles and Templates
  • Admin Codes
  • Waivers and Assessments
  • FM Reports
  • Approvals and Amendments
FM-05: Addendum A and You

Course Description: An overview of the fatigue rules and how their implementation within the Fatigue Management Common Solution. Participants gain a better understanding how to use the Addendum A document to help them in their day-to-day usage of the Fatigue Management common solution.

Audience: Those who want to better understand the WorkForce Software Fatigue Management Common Solution Addendum A document.

Prerequisites: None

Format: Instructor led, web participation

Duration: One-half day

Course Content:

  • What Addendum A is and is not
  • Navigating the document
  • Basic definitions
  • Examples of rules manifested in EmpCenter
FM-06: Amendments and Approvals

Course Description: Review of amendments and approvals, and a survey of the entire amendment process. Processing amended timesheets, frequently asked questions and pitfalls, example scenarios, and correctly using the system.

Audience: Managers of any level who deal with amended timesheets.

Prerequisites: None

Format: Instructor led, web participation

Duration: One-quarter day

Course Content:

  • Approval process and approval window
  • Making amendments
  • Approving amendments
  • Other timesheet versions
  • Processing amendments
  • FAQ and common pitfalls
FM-07: Waivers and Fatigue Assessments

Course Description: An in-depth demonstration of how to create, delete and modify manual waivers, workflow waivers and fatigue assessments. Upon completion of this course, attendees will know all of the intricate differences between manual and workflow waivers, how to cancel a waiver, avoiding problematic mistakes, and resolving such mistakes.

Audience: Personnel who manage employees who are subject to compliance with NRC Rule 10 CFR Part 26 (Fitness for Duty) and are responsible for waiving deviating time for employees.  Personnel who are responsible for creating and approving waivers and fatigue assessments should take this course.

Prerequisites: None

Format: Instructor led, web participation

Duration: One-quarter day

Course Content:

  • Workflow waivers
  • Manual waivers
  • Required and non-required fields
  • Cancelling a waiver
  • FAQ and common pitfalls
FM-08: Using Fatigue Management Reports Effectively

Course Description: A survey of all of the Fatigue Management reports: their purpose, functionality, and limitations. Upon completion of this course, attendees will know the capabilities of each report as well as the necessary data for each report. Understanding the reports help prevent deviations as well as increase your ability to manage the system.

Audience: Personnel who manage employees (at any level) who are subject to compliance with NRC Rule 10 CFR Part 26 (Fitness for Duty). Personnel who need a better understanding of Fatigue Management Common Solution reports.

Prerequisites: None

Format: Instructor led, web participation

Duration: One-half day

Course Content:

  • Reports purpose
  • Functionality
  • Required data
  • WebIntelligence Reports – introduction and overview
FM-09: How to Track Time in the Fatigue Management Common Solution

Course Description: A detailed look at how to correctly enter time for the fatigue management rules, as well as examples of tracking time properly for problematic scenarios.

Audience: This course should be taken by personnel who manage employees (at any level) who are subject to compliance with NRC Rule 10 CFR Part 26 (Fitness for Duty).  It should be taken by personnel who are familiar with the NRC Rule 10 CFR Part 26 but who are unfamiliar with the Fatigue Management Common Solution.

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge and understanding of the fatigue rules or FM-05.

Format: Instructor led, classroom

Duration: One-half day

Course Content:

  • Time record types
    • Definition, purpose, and limitations of each time record type
    • Explanation of day definition and how to enter  your time correctly
    • System generated schedules versus manually entered schedules
  • FM codes / Time Codes
    • Introduction to FM codes
    • Explanation of time codes and how they relate to FM codes
    • Definition and purpose of each FM code
    • Overview of Section 15 of Addendum A
    • How to use the LD Upload functionality to maintain time codes and FM codes
  • Covered status override
    • How the system determines covered status
    • How to use the covered status override
    • General warnings about using the override
  • Using schedule cycles and templates
    • Introduction to schedule templates and cycles
    • Explanation of metadata
    • How to use the Assign Schedule Templates window
    • What happens when a new schedule cycle is assigned
FM-10: Using FM Codes

Course Description: An extensive look into the relationship between FM codes and the NRC compliance rules (as outlined in Addendum A).  Upon completing this course, attendees will have an in-depth knowledge of each FM Code, how each FM Code relates to the Fatigue Management rules, and the relationship between Time Codes and FM Codes.

Audience: Personnel who are subject to, or who manage employees who are subject to compliance with NRC Rule 10 CFR Part 26 (Fitness for Duty).  Personnel who are unfamiliar with FM codes as they relate to the NRC Rule 10 CFR Part 26 and the Fatigue Management Common Solution.

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge and understanding of the fatigue rules or FM-05.

Format: Instructor led, web participation

Duration: One-quarter day

Course Content:

  • Introduction to FM codes
  • Explanation of time codes and how they relate to FM codes
  • Definition and purpose of each FM code
  • Overview of Section 15 of Addendum A
  • How to use the LD Upload functionality to maintain time codes and FM codes
FM-11: Using Admin Codes

Course Description: A detailed survey of all the Admin Codes available in Fatigue Management Common Solution. Upon completion of this course, attendees will know how to use admin codes effectively and efficiently to override violations, conduct “what if” testing in future timesheets, and modify evaluation period data.

Audience: This course should be taken by personnel who are subject to or who manage employees who are subject to compliance with NRC Rule 10 CFR Part 26 (Fitness for Duty).  It should be taken by managers that are responsible for changing their employees’ timesheets to force different evaluate periods, override deviations, or create what-if scenarios.

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge and understanding of the fatigue rules or FM-05.

Format: Instructor led, classroom

Duration: One-half day

Course Content:

  • The purpose and functionality of different kinds of FM codes
    • “What if” codes:  EECAT, EECOV, TMCOV
    • Evaluation period codes:  OSTAT, PDLEN, PDTYP, FCONT, FSTRT
    • Deviation codes:  LCSEE, MBBS8, OPTRN, DEVOR
FM-12: Schedule Templates and Cycles

Course Description: A comprehensive lesson on schedule templates and cycles. Upon completion of this course, attendees will know how to create, modify and delete schedule templates, schedule cycles and schedule cycle meta data.  Attendees will also be introduced to common mistakes made when creating schedules and how to troubleshoot when problems arise with schedules.

Audience: This course should be taken by personnel who maintain, create or modify the schedule templates and cycles for your system.  It should be taken by schedulers who are responsible for creating the outage and online schedules for their group.

Prerequisites: None

Format: Instructor led, web participation

Duration: One-half day

Course Content:

  • Creating and maintaining schedule templates and cycles in EmpCenter
    • Creating schedule templates and schedule cycles
    • Creating schedule cycle metadata
    • FAQ and common pitfalls
  • Explanation of metadata
  • Assign Schedule Cycles window
  • What happens when a new schedule cycle is assigned
FM-13: Making Configuration Changes in a Fatigue Management Common Solution Implementation

Course Description: This course will cover basic EmpCenter configuration topics that are applicable to FMCS implementations.  This course will enable attendees to understand how to make changes to their FMCS configuration to tailor the system to their organization’s usage while preserving the FMCS solutions.

Audience: This course should be taken by technical support personnel who are responsible for making changes that affect business rules and operation of their EmpCenter FMCS implementation.

Prerequisites: Attendees should have programming or macro language experience.

Format: Instructor led, classroom

Duration: Four days

Course Content:

  • Introduction to the Policy Editor
  • Configuring Roles and granting privileges
    • Changing time sheet access
    • Making pay codes editable by different types of users
  • Effective-dating policy changes
  • Setting up emails and notifications
  • Updating and customizing exception messages
  • Configuring the Approvals window
  • Identifying areas of the configuration that should not be changed in order to keep the FMCS solution intact
  • Policy migration
FM-14: Upgrading the Fatigue Management Common Solution Software

Course Description: During this one-day course, learn the ins and outs of upgrading your custom configuration to a new version of the Fatigue Management Common Solution. Upon completion of this course, participants will have a detailed understanding of the upgrade process and been given a chance to complete a practice upgrade.

Audience: This course should be taken by personnel who maintain, create or modify the schedule templates and cycles for your system.

Prerequisites: Attendees should have programming or macro
language experience.

Format: Instructor led, classroom

Duration: One day

Course Content:

  • Introduction to the Policy Editor
    • Opening the policy editor
    • Search functionality
    • Usage functionality
    • Child, parent and singleton policies
    • Deleting, copying and adding policies
  • The Upgrade Process
  • Common upgrade pitfalls
  • Upgrade FAQs
  • Practice Upgrade

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