Kronos for Energy

For employers in the oil and gas industry, fatigue is a major challenge. Fatigued employees can mean serious occupational risks, as well as billions of dollars annually in lost productivity, absenteeism,and other expenses. Recognizing this problem, the American Petroleum Institute (API) has developed ANSI/API Recommended Practice 755: Fatigue Risk Management Systems for Personnel in the Refining and Petrochemical Industries. An important part of this recommended practice is its guidelines for hours of service.

This paper describes the challenges with employee fatigue and addresses how Kronos solutions can help to minimize fatigue by streamlining processes for complying with the hours of service guidelines recommended by API.

Practical strategies help energy organizations achieve efficiency, enablement, engagement Today's energy organizations face increasing pressure to maximize margins and do more with less. While that principle applies across the company, human resources finds itself in a period of transition as they are scrutinized more closely than ever and continually challenged to prove their worth and contribution to the organization's strategic goals.  This period of transition has forced HR to look more closely at industry trends not just in HR but in energy. Find out how energy companies can leverage innovative workforce management and technology strategies to address today's top 3 HR trends — to achieve efficiency, enablement, and engagement in their quest to prove their value to their organization.

Prairie State Generating Company is focused on utilizing domestic coal resources to deploy clean generation technologies in an efficient and environmentally friendly manner, generating enough electricity to serve approximately 2.5 million families in eight states. PSGC began with 20 employees and five years later employs nearly 500 hourly, salaried exempt, and salaried nonexempt employees who work in a coal-fired generating plant and adjacent coal mine, as well as at corporate, administration, and training buildings situated within an eight-mile radius. With streamlined payroll processing and automated human resources management — as well as accurate, real-time labor data that helps guide informed decisions — PSGC feels its Kronos investment is delivering returns.

White Paper Out Sick: How to Minimize the Impact of Unplanned Absences in the Energy Industry Reduce Costs and Increase Productivity with an Automated Absence Management SolutionReduce Costs and Increase Productivity with an Automated Absence Management Solution Imagine a world where all your employees show up for work

Kronos® Workforce Activities™ enables oil and gas, mining, and utilities companies to accurately track the time and capital resources spent by employees on tasks throughout the workday.

Kronos® Workforce Scheduler™ is a comprehensive solution that helps energy organizations solve the challenges related to employee safety and compliance efforts, while providing schedules that maximize productivity and business results. 

Automate utilities crew callout, scheduling, and emergency notification.

This HR Executive magazine article explains how Chesapeake Energy plans to more easily connect its rapidly growing workforce to the company’s automated workforce-management system, by deploying Kronos Workforce Mobile. 

Employees in the field can punch in and out on their company-issued mobile devices, view their timecards and schedules, check their accrual balances and request time off.

Using mobile phones or tablets, managers can see employee schedules and quickly respond to workforce management issues, including approving employee timecards and time-off requests.

Get a sneak peek into Lean Labor, a new book by Gregg Gordon, Senior Director of Manufacturing Industry Marketing at Kronos, Inc., that focuses on the role labor can play in improving throughput, quality and performance for global competitive advantage.

Kronos for Energy automates workforce management policies that help improve workplace safety and meet documentation requirements for regulatory compliance. With Kronos workforce management solutions, energy and resources companies can creatve a safer workforce by automating the enforcement of policies for hiring, scheduling, tracking employee training, and documenting safety incidents while maintaining compliance.