A free, secure and intelligent workforce planning tool for diagnostic laboratories.
Set up your laboratory data once, to automate your scheduling forever! Simply input your staffing levels, competencies, shift patterns, and bench coverage to generate draft rosters in minutes.
Six steps, start to finish.
The blank workbook has the headings, guidance and dropdown lists but no staff. Both examples are complete fictional departments you can generate a roster from straight away.
Excel workbook (.xlsx). It is read inside this browser tab and is not uploaded anywhere.
Leave the dates blank to use the period set in your workbook. The generation ID is recorded with each draft so the same roster can be reproduced; you do not normally need to change it. Use Generate alternative roster instead.
This is a draft for you to review. Lab Shift Roster supports your decisions about staffing; it does not make them.
The staff rota is a simplified workbook for circulating to the team: who is working, when, and in which section. It deliberately leaves out competency records, individual hours, fairness analysis, workforce vulnerabilities and the reason for anybody's absence. The manager report keeps the full analysis.
Grouped by how much attention each one needs. Related warnings with the same underlying cause are combined into one item.
Change who is working a shift. Lab Shift Roster re-runs every check afterwards, so you see straight away whether the change creates a new problem. Manual changes are kept and are never overwritten when the roster is rebuilt.
Scroll sideways to see the whole period. Filter to focus on one shift, section or person.
Who was allocated to each laboratory section. One person covers one section at a time, so this reflects who is actually there.
Target hours are contracted weekly hours scaled to the length of the roster period.
How many people could cover each discipline if somebody were unavailable. This is about the department as a whole, which is a different question from whether one shift is thinly covered.