Four-day service-staff work-week in order to complete maintenance operations more effectively in a Nigerian power-generating station
- Resource Type
- Authors
- S.D. Probert; Ikuobase Emovon; Stephen Ogaji; M. T. Lilly
- Source
- Applied Energy. 84:1044-1055
- Subject
- Service (business)
Engineering
Power station
Total cost
business.industry
Mechanical Engineering
Quality of service
Building and Construction
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Completed Staff Work
Schedule (workplace)
General Energy
Order (business)
Workforce
Operations management
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 0306-2619
Labour costs represent the major portion of the total cost in many industries and activities. This investigation examines a four-day workweek (compared with the current five-day week schedule) for maintenance operations in the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN). The aim is to reduce maintenance labour-costs, while satisfying increasing demands for higher effectiveness. Changing from the five to a four-day workweek for maintenance personnel at the Afam power-station is predicted to produce savings of 10% of maintenance labour cost without any loss of output or quality of service.