LENS
LENS 24/7 Lifestyle Planners are unique and innovative instruments, which integrate and incorporate the best-known science-based practices. These planners are used for combating residual impacts of fatigue in all shiftwork schedules into very economical and easy-to-use science-based tools that are developed to not only flag problems, but to fix them.
Features
- The 247 LENS Planners take the generated Activity/Rest Cycle Model for any 12- hour roster and break it down into individual day optimal strategies and countermeasures.
- All the Optimal Strategies (OS) and Countermeasures (CM) are clearly designated by color-code and/or text cue.
- Each OS and CM is imbedded into the actual work pattern for Day Shift, Night Shift, and Days off.
- Instead of a 3-5 hour information training dump or a generic computer training module. Provided when the workers are already sleep deprived, LENS is within their reach, every day, with access to best practices, applicable to them, based on their schedules.
- Application of OS and CM to employee lifestyle practices has a minimum of 50% reduction in significant to high risk within all schedules.
- The 24/7 LENS Planner is specifically designed to identify the most optimal strategies for adjusting to an employee’s particular schedule. It clearly reveals the Best Practices, for each schedule providing insight into:
- When the optimal times for sleep are, especially during transitions from Day to Night shift
- When best times to nap are and for how long
- What types of food to eat and when
- Where fatigue risks are in each schedule (most prevalent periods for risk)
- What the optimal transition day strategies are and when/how to apply them
- What days are needed for ‘pure’ recovery so employee and management know
- When to start to curb caffeine use
- When the optimal times are for exercise, be it Isometrics or Aerobics
- When the optimal time is to begin Sleep Hygiene
- When to plan for best recovery time(s)
How It Works
- The LENS planners are designed and supplied to Company at the beginning of each new year, to be handed out at the start of a new year.
- Each crew receives their own planner in accordance to their actual work schedule for 24/7 365 days a year on one plastic coated sheet.
- All 12 scientifically established best practice strategies are incorporated into an easy to read one page sheet.
- Top strategies with each planner clearly identify when the most optimal times are to apply strategies to schedules, in regards to: sleep, main meals, napping, transition to night shift, fatigue zones, and Curbing Caffeins
- All Strategies are clearly color-coded so employees and families can easily track best practices to help adjust to the employees work schedule.
- Planners are not just for employees, but also for the families to help confirm total family commitment to new lifestyle strategies.
- Planners, along with the strategies allow for employees to not only tolerate their existing schedule, but also adjust to it.
- A LENS Mobile app for IPhone and Android will be available in spring of 2023.
Frequently Asked Questions
The LENS planners are designed and supplied to Company at the beginning of each New Year, preferably given out as a Christmas gift.
Yes, a full Train the Trainer (TTT) program is deployed to ensure full understanding of all levels of Best Practice Strategies.
The company purchasing the LENS Planner will receive a ‘Master’ template for each crew, in addition to copies supplied for each employee. Allowing the company to produce as many Planners as it deems relevant.
By applying the strategies to shiftwork lifestyles, based on biomathematical modeling, a minimum of 50% reduction in Significant to High risk is experienced.
Scientific evidence has proven that well rested individuals, in control of their lives have higher levels of:
· Performance
· Productivity
· Alertness
· Safety Records
· Health
· Quality of Life
· And Accountability
