Fatigue risk is a WHS obligation — not a nice-to-have
Under model WHS laws, Australian employers must identify, assess and control fatigue risk. Spreadsheets and memory can't do that across swings, nights and multiple sites.
Breaches you can't see coming
A worker picks up an extra shift on another site and quietly sails past safe-hour thresholds — nobody notices until the incident report.
Policies stuck on paper
Your fatigue policy lives in a PDF while rosters are built in a spreadsheet that has never read it.
Manual checking that doesn't scale
Coordinators cross-checking hours by hand across crews, clients and swing patterns — slow, error-prone and impossible to audit.
Set fatigue rules for every level of your operation
Build a fatigue policy once and apply it as your business default, then override it per client or per site — the strictest applicable policy always wins. Every lever that matters to fatigue risk is configurable.
- Business default, with client and site-level overrides
- Shift-duration, handover and start-time limits
- Minimum breaks between shifts and after nights
- Consecutive day/night caps and rolling hour limits (7/14/28 days)

Get stopped before a non-compliant shift goes ahead
When a booking would breach a policy, Humanz surfaces the exact violation before the shift is confirmed — who, when and by how much. Coordinators can cancel and fix it, or continue anyway where they have the authority, with the decision on record.
- Violations detected at the point of scheduling
- The worker, date and specific breach shown
- Cancel, adjust, or override with permission
- Overrides captured for your audit trail

Breaches flagged right on the roster
A fatigue icon appears on any shift that trips a policy. Hover it and you see which policy was breached and by how much — here, 54 hours in the past seven days against a 48-hour limit — all without leaving the schedule.
- A fatigue icon on every affected shift
- Hover for the policy and the exact breach
- Works across the one-week to three-month views
- Spot problems while there's still time to act

Rolling hours tracked across your whole workforce
Humanz keeps a running tally of every worker's hours across all their shifts, sites and clients — so the cumulative fatigue no single roster would reveal is caught. An overloaded worker stands out at a glance.
- Cumulative hours across all sites and clients
- Breached shifts highlighted on the roster
- Rolling 7-day and longer windows
- FIFO swings and rotating nights handled natively

A safeguard for schedulers — not your workers
Fatigue monitoring is built for the people creating rosters. The fatigue icons toggle on or off in display settings, and the policies and breaches are only ever visible to coordinators on the Schedule — never to end users.
- Fatigue icons toggle in display settings
- Visible to coordinators on the Schedule
- Sits alongside accommodation and asset icons
- No noise for the people on the tools

Set up in minutes, with in-app guidance
Fatigue Policies are created and managed from your Business Profile — start from a template or build from scratch, set a default, and refine them any time. In-app how-to guides walk your team through every step.
- Create from a template or from scratch
- Managed from your Business Profile
- Edit and refine policies at any time
- Step-by-step in-app guides included

Mapped to Australian fatigue obligations
Humanz was built around the compliance frameworks Australian operators actually work under.
Model WHS laws
Systematically identify, assess and control fatigue risk — with records to prove it.
Industry codes and client rules
Mining, transport and construction clients each impose their own fatigue standards. Layered policies let you meet all of them at once.
Qualification & licence currency
Fatigue gates work alongside licence and ticket expiry checks — one compliance layer over the whole roster.
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Getting started is simple
We support each step and move at your pace — see our approach for the full rollout picture.
Bring your fatigue policy
We configure your existing business, client and site rules into Humanz — usually in a single working session.
Connect it to the roster
Policies run automatically against every booking. Coordinators keep scheduling exactly as before — now with guardrails.
Monitor and improve
Dashboards show near-misses and trends, so you can tune rosters and policies with real data.
Frequently asked questions
What is fatigue management software?
Fatigue management software tracks workers' hours against defined fatigue rules — maximum shift lengths, rest breaks, consecutive days — and alerts or blocks scheduling decisions that would breach them. In Humanz, these checks run inside the roster itself, so non-compliant shifts are caught before they're confirmed.
Is fatigue management a legal requirement in Australia?
Under model WHS laws adopted across most Australian states, employers must manage foreseeable risks — and fatigue is explicitly recognised as one. Safe Work Australia publishes guidance requiring fatigue risk to be identified, assessed and controlled. Software makes that obligation systematic and auditable rather than manual.
Can we set different fatigue rules for different clients or sites?
Yes. Humanz supports layered fatigue policies at business, client and site level. When a worker is rostered to a job, the strictest applicable policy applies automatically — which is exactly how mining and transport client requirements work in practice.
Does it work for FIFO and swing rosters?
Yes. Humanz handles extended swings, rotating nights and back-to-back patterns natively, tracking cumulative hours across the full cycle — including when workers move between sites or clients.
How long does it take to set up?
Most teams have fatigue policies configured and running against live rosters within the first week or two of onboarding. Bring your current policy to a demo and we'll show you how it maps into the platform.
Can a coordinator override a fatigue warning?
Yes — where they have permission. Rather than hard-blocking the roster, Humanz shows the exact breach and lets an authorised coordinator continue anyway when there's a genuine reason. Every override is recorded, so you keep a clear audit trail of who accepted which risk and when.
Guides & further reading
See your fatigue policy running live
Book a free demo and bring your current fatigue rules — we'll configure them in Humanz while you watch.


