Work windows, not guesses
Find the hours when a job can be finished within the work schedule, and move deferrable work into them.
Crew Thermal Safety · for field crews in extreme cold and heat
Plan field work around extreme cold and heat, before crews go out.
Crew Thermal Safety turns the forecast into crew-level work windows, rotation plans and a record of every decision, through winter cold and summer heat in one place.
- Safety leads
- Dispatch & scheduling
- Field operations
- Crew supervisors
Photo: Glacier National Park / NPS, public domain
The problem
A forecast says how cold or hot it will be. A supervisor needs to know how long a crew can keep working.
The temperature is in every forecast. The work plan is not.
In extreme cold or heat, crews need warm-up or cool-down breaks, relief crews and shorter tasks, often exactly when demand for field work peaks. Those calls are usually made hour by hour on the day.
- No crew-level measure. Temperature and wind are not wind chill, heat index or an exposure limit for a specific site and hour.
- Rules applied on the day. When one crew becomes two, or planned work stops, is decided in the field rather than set ahead of time.
- No record of the call. Why a crew was doubled, deferred or stopped is hard to show a safety review later.
Business value
Safer crews, steadier schedules, a clear record.
Staff for the extremes
Plan warm-up or cool-down rotations, relief crews and staging before conditions arrive, with a clear decision deadline.
A record for every call
Alerts, acknowledgements and decisions are kept in a tamper-evident log, with reports ready for safety and operations reviews.
How it works
One chain for both ends of the thermometer.
The measure and the schedule change between cold and heat. Everything after them is shared.
Weather
Forecast, official alerts and station observations.
Crew measure
Wind chill in the cold, heat index in the heat, per area and hour.
Trigger tier
Your tiers, from normal to stop work. Official warnings raise the floor.
Work schedule
Work and warm-up, or work and rest, from published guidance and your own program.
Crew plan
One crew or a relief rotation, based on how long the task takes.
Work window
The best hours for each job, and when the decision has to be made.
Record
Every alert, acknowledgement and decision, kept for review.
What changes for your teams
Safety leads
Your written program followed on every shift, decided before the cold or heat arrives.
Dispatch & scheduling
Deferrable work moved into workable hours, and relief crews planned before they are needed.
Crew supervisors
A task-specific plan for the shift, and a clear signal when conditions change.
Operations leadership
The crew-hours and service trade-offs of an extreme-weather day, and the record behind each call.