Hi,
I've gotten stuck on a question. My understanding of the rest times may be incorrect.
The question down the bottom of page 3.7
you commence a tour of duty at 8am and due to a flat nose wheel tyre you finally complete your tour of duty st 7.55pm that night, what is the earliest you can commence your next tour of duty?
I would have said 10am. This is my understanding
You've worked for 11hrs and 55 mins
the limit is 11 hours so you're 55 minutes over means you need 1 hour for every 15 minutes so you need 4 hours on top on min rest (3.6 to be exact but I'm guessing you round up to 4?)
Min rest is 10 hours ( as you finished outside of 10pm - 6am)
From 7:55 add 14 hours gives 9:55, which is why I chose 10am.
I may be getting the whole concept of this rest period confused - if anyone can shed some light that would be much appreciated
Cheers!
Hey mate,
My understanding is that if your outside of the 10pm-6am bracket, you are able to rest during this period, therefore you only need to comply with the 9 consecutive hours. If you finished at some time within that bracket, you would need 10 hours. I may be wrong, but this is the way I have been approaching these questions.
From there, add 4 hours due to the requirement of 1 additional hour for every 15 minutes the tour of duty exceeded 11 hours. In CAO 48.1 1.7 which is applicable for this question it says, 'for each 15 minutes or [u]part thereof[/u]..' hence the reason for the 4 hours.
From 7:55pm, add 13 hours and so the earliest time you can commence work will be 9:00am.
Hopefully that's the correct way of going about it.
