Work Teams identify the crews that are needed to fill the posts in the workstation. They are used to create a link between a workstation and the shifts required to fill that station.

Teams are the set of employees that work together in a work station on the same shift rotation, often led by a team leader or lead hand, may be referred to as a crew, a squad, a work station complement. In a shift environment, each work station has its own work team for each shift.

Teams are defined with a general start and end date (to allow the shifts defined for a work team to change over time), a shift pattern (created on Maintain Shift Patterns (ITSP)), and a ‘relative start day’.

For example: The following 8 day shift pattern is defined on ITSP.

RELATIVE DAY	SHIFT
1	Days 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
2	Days 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
3	OFF
4	OFF
5	Nights 7:00 pm – 7:00 am
6	Nights 7:00 pm – 7:00 am
7	OFF
8	OFF

The station, ‘Fire Engine 1’ must be manned around the clock. In order to meet this requirement, 4 work teams are established.

If each team starts with a different ‘relative day’ the entire 24 hours will be covered and each team will have days off between their shift changes. This 8 day pattern can be continuously repeated to provided full coverage over a month, year or longer.

DATE	TEAM 1 - REL DAY 1	TEAM 2 - REL DAY 5	TEAM 3 - REL DAY 7	TEAM 4 - REL DAY 3
Aug 22	DAYS	NIGHTS	OFF	OFF
Aug 23	DAYS	NIGHTS	OFF	OFF
Aug 24	OFF	OFF	DAYS	NIGHTS
Aug 25	OFF	OFF	DAYS	NIGHTS
Aug 26	NIGHTS	DAYS	OFF	OFF
Aug 27	NIGHTS	DAYS	OFF	OFF
Aug 28	OFF	OFF	NIGHTS	DAYS
Aug 29	OFF	OFF	NIGHTS	DAYS

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