Systems and Methods for Personnel Monitoring and Management

Abstract

The systems and methods for providing an integrated means for monitoring, managing and auditing employees performance at a workplace or job site, such as monitoring the time worked by the employees, ensuring employee compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and coordinating and assigning duties to be performed by the employees. Each employee may be provided with a mobile wireless device in communication with the system to provide alerts of potential or actual violations, notifications of any change in duties or position, and notification of time clock status (i.e., time to take a break, time to clock in, etc.).

What is claimed: 
     
         1 . A computer system for monitoring and managing an employee at a workplace, the computer system comprising:
 an electronic memory storage configured to store modules;   a computer processor configured to execute the modules comprising:
 an employee identification module configured to receive employee identification data, perform a comparison of the received employee identification data with stored credential data of the employee, and determine whether or not to grant the employee access to the system; 
 a scheduling module configured to receive time data from the employee related to an employee clock-in time and an employee clock-out time, wherein the employee clock-in time indicates an employee start time for working and the clock-out time indicates an employee stop time for working; 
 a compliance module configured to access applicable regulations from a regulations database, the compliance module further configured to determine whether the employee is in compliance with the applicable regulations; and 
 a performance module configured to coordinate assignment of duties, 
 wherein the scheduling module, compliance module, and performance module are further configured to communicate with each other to enable the performance module to ensure the employee is not assigned a duty that would result in the employee violating the applicable regulations based on the received time data, applicable regulations, and anticipated time requirements of the duty. 
   
     
     
         2 . The computer system of  claim 1 , wherein the employee identification module is configured to receive employee identification data from at least one of: a touch screen, a card reader, a key pad, a biometric identification device, or combinations thereof. 
     
     
         3 . The computer system of  claim 1 , wherein the scheduling module, based on a determination that a duty is assigned to the employee, is further configured to electronically transmit an alert to the employee to inform the employee of the duty assigned to the employee. 
     
     
         4 . The computer system of  claim 1 , wherein the performance module is further configured to reassign a duty originally assigned to the employee, based on a determination that continued assignment of the duty to the employee would result in the employee violating the applicable regulations. 
     
     
         5 . The computer system of  claim 1 , wherein the applicable regulations comprises government workplace regulations. 
     
     
         6 . The computer system of  claim 1 , wherein the applicable regulations comprises business rules. 
     
     
         7 . The computer system of  claim 1 , wherein the applicable regulations comprises government workplace regulations and business rules. 
     
     
         8 . The computer system of  claim 1 , wherein the applicable regulations comprises a frequency of breaks and a length of breaks required. 
     
     
         9 . The computer system of  claim 1 , wherein the applicable regulations comprises a quantity of overtime allowed. 
     
     
         10 . A computer system for managing and automatically recording an employee clock-out time, the computer system comprising:
 an electronic memory storage configured to store modules;   a computer processor configured to execute the modules comprising:
 an employee time management module configured to access time data of an employee related to an employee clock-in time and an employee clock-out time, wherein the employee clock-in time indicates an employee start time for working and the clock-out time indicates an employee stop time for working; and 
 a compliance module configured to access applicable regulations from a regulations database, the compliance module further configured to determine whether the employee is in compliance with the applicable regulations, 
 wherein the employee time management module and compliance module are further configured to communicate with each other to determine whether the employee is required to clock-out at a point in time based on the received time data and applicable regulations, 
 wherein the employee time management module, based on the determination that the employee is required to clock-out, is further configured to automatically record a clock-out time. 
   
     
     
         11 . The computer system of  claim 10 , wherein the scheduling module, based on a determination that the employee is required to clock-out, is further configured to electronically transmit an alert to the employee to clock-out. 
     
     
         12 . The computer system of  claim 10 , wherein the applicable regulations comprises government workplace regulations. 
     
     
         13 . The computer system of  claim 10 , wherein the applicable regulations comprises business rules. 
     
     
         14 . The computer system of  claim 10 , wherein the applicable regulations comprises government workplace regulations and business rules. 
     
     
         15 . The computer system of  claim 10 , wherein the applicable regulations comprises a frequency of breaks and a length of breaks required. 
     
     
         16 . The computer system of  claim 10 , wherein the applicable regulations comprises a quantity of overtime allowed. 
     
     
         17 . The computer system of  claim 10 , further comprising a performance module configured to coordinate assignment of duties, wherein the performance module is further configured to not assign additional duties to the employee based on the determination that the employee is required to clock-out. 
     
     
         18 . The computer system of  claim 10 , further comprising a display module configured to graphically present on a display hardware to a manager whether the employee is in compliance with the applicable regulations.