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Crews visible on shift, and only on shift
Supervisors and residents see where the work is, without tracking anyone off shift.
Idea for assessment, not an approved project
The problem
What residents describe today.
Supervisors spend much of a storm day asking crews where they are. Residents call to ask if their street was done, and nobody can prove the work.
Workers on their own on the coldest days have no automatic check-in if something goes wrong.
Evidence
The problem comes from conversations about storm days and lone work in the cold. It has not been measured yet. To test it: how much supervisor time goes to locating crews, and how lone-worker check-ins are handled today.
The idea
An approach to assess.
- Location comes from the work app crews already sign in to, only between the start and end of a shift.
- Every location is tied to an assigned job, with arrival, photos and completion recorded.
- A safety check-in for people working alone on the coldest days.
- Written rules first: on shift only, teams not individuals, no selling of data, data kept in Canada. Consultation with workers and their unions before any pilot.
Before anything happens
What this idea still needs.
- Tarrabin Consulting's role
- Tarrabin Consulting wrote this idea and can advise on it. We do not run these services and we hold no approval to build them. Any decision belongs to the people and organizations responsible.
- Decisions needed
- Whether location data should be used at all, the written rules for it, and the agreement of workers and their unions before any pilot.
- Next step to test it
- Talk with workers and their representatives first. Then a written privacy assessment before anyone discusses a pilot.
- Communities
- Where an idea touches First Nations or Métis communities, those communities decide. Nothing goes ahead without their written mandate, and the Crown's duty to consult stays with the Crown.
Video, 7 min 12 s
Video coming soon
How crew location would work on shift, what leaders see, and the privacy rules written into the system.
Demonstration. Screens show simulated data. People in the video are fictional unless named.
Coming to the Tarrabin Consulting YouTube channel.
Your opinion
Three questions. Under a minute.
Is this a problem for you, and would this idea help? Your answers are counted with everyone else's.
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