Yamacon (Yamagata City, president: Takahiko Sato), a major concrete pumping company, is increasingly responding to work style reforms, including imposing overtime limits and imposing Penalties apply starting from April. We collect operational and equipment data from over 100 of our concrete pump trucks. Detailed analysis of operating conditions to understand employee working hours at the facility and implement measures to maintain legal and regulatory limits. President Sato said, ``We will meet customer requirements with the most suitable personnel and machinery.''
The company is headquartered primarily in eastern Japan and handles a variety of construction projects. In the concrete pumping industry, the general process is that the pump truck must go from the engine tank to each civil work or construction site according to the order, complete the job and then return to the original location. The engine group is the starting point for calculating hours worked.
From April onwards, efforts to reduce overtime will be necessary through timekeeping management that takes into account travel time, working time and preparation time before and after work. Pumping work is carried out to different locations each day depending on on-site construction plans. Even on large-scale construction projects where there is no on-site office, time management and other matters are left to the operator in charge of each vehicle.
To properly comply with regulations on overtime, it is necessary to accurately grasp the working time of each employee. In response, last fall the company installed an innovative system with digital tachometers that can control real-time operations on all the pump trucks it owns. Trip data and pumping equipment performance data are captured, analyzed and used for time management.
Starting from April, the upper limit on overtime (excluding work on holidays) in the construction industry will in principle be 45 hours per month and 360 hours per year, which cannot be exceeded unless there are circumstances. special case. Even if an agreement is reached between workers and management, overtime will be limited to no more than 720 hours a year, and overtime and work on holidays will be strictly limited. at less than 100 hours per month, with an average of no more than 100 hours per month. 80 hours in two to six months.
After carefully finding out the number of overtime hours of each employee, the company should first ``(if there is a risk of having to work overtime) ask them to work at the office instead of going to the construction site.'' ( President Sato) ``Is that right? 0 or 100?” The idea is to take the following measures. We are promoting education that enables an operator to use a variety of equipment, optimally arrange personnel and machinery, and coordinate operations, achieving both work style reform as well as maintenance and Improve construction quality. The company plans to overcome this difficult situation by requiring the general contractor to continue carrying out work on site.
