title: Advantages of shift changeovers with meetings: ergonomic analysis of shift supervisors' activity in aircraft building.
abstract: Good shift changeovers contribute to ensuring continuity and reliability in shift work. In situations where production is not maintained 24 h a day, changeovers with meetings (SCM) between the two work teams (written plus oral face-to-face handovers) alternate with changeovers without meetings (SCnM; written handovers only). An ergonomic work analysis on an aircraft assembly line showed that (1) incoming and outgoing operators met during the overlap time allotted by the company, and (2) the content of the exchanges was richer for SCMs than for SCnMs. SCMs enabled the operators to pass on and process more aspects of their work than SCnMs did. SCMs also allowed incoming operators to validate their predictions, and enabled both outgoing and incoming operators to update their mental models and work together on peripheral aspects of the technical process over a greater time span. The findings highlight the importance of allowing overlap time in shift work.
authors.affiliation: University of Toulouse - CLLE-LTC - UMR5263 CNRS, 5 allées A. Machado, 31058 Toulouse Cedex 9, France. valerie.lebris@univ-tlse2.fr
authors.forename: Valérie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Le Bris
authors.forename: Béatrice
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Barthe
authors.forename: Jean-Claude
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Marquié
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kerguelen
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aubert
authors.forename: Bernadette
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bernadou
mesh_terms: D000401:Aircraft; D004651:Employment; D005602:France; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D011786:Quality Control