Maintenance is carried out to prevent problems arising and to put faults right. It may be part of a planned programme or may have to be carried out at short notice after a breakdown. It always involves non-routine activities.
Extra care is needed when getting up to and working at heights, or when doing work which requires access to unusual parts of the building.
Hazards can arise when working on machinery, including accidental/premature startup using hand tools and electrical equipment during contact with materials which are normally enclosed in plant and equipment; and entering vessels or confined spaces where there may be toxic materials or a lack of air.
Safe Plant
You may need:
1. isolate electrical and other power supplies. Most maintenance should be carried out with the power off. If the work is near uninsulated overhead electrical conductors, e.g. close to overhead traveling cranes, the power should be cut off first.
2. isolate plan and pipelines containing pressurized fluid, gas, steam or hazardous material. Isolating valves should be locked off.
3. support parts of plant which could fall.
4. allow moving plant to stop.
5. allow components which operate at high temperatures time to cool.
6. place mobile plant in neutral gear, applying the brake and choking the wheels.
7. clean out vessels containing flammable solids, liquids, gases or dusts and check them before hot work is carried out, to prevent explosion.
8. clean and check vessels containing toxic materials before work starts
Hand Tools
You must ensure that hand tools are properly maintained, e.g.
1. hammers – avoid split, broken or loose shafts and worn or chipped heads. Heads should be properly secured to the shafts
2. files – should have proper handle. Never use then as levers
3. chisels – the cutting edge should be sharpened to the correct angle. Do not allow the head to spread to a mushroom shape- grind off the sides regularly
4. screwdrivers – should never be used as chisels, and hammers should never be used on them. Split handles are dangerous.
5. spanners – avoid splayed jaws. Scrap any which shows sign of slipping. Have enough spanners of the right size. Do not improvise by using pipes etc as extension handles.
Good Health and Safety Management is as vital to an enterprise as good as engineering management and good financial management. The health and safety practitioner plays vital role in protecting an organization's most vital assets that is the skilled and trained work force. We must assess the risks to which this work force may be exposed. Let us formulate reasonably practicable solutions taking into account the financial and engineering factors.
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A condition monitoring program plays a very important role in most industrial companies that have plant machinery. These programs enable companies of all sizes to manage costs and extend the lifetime of plant machinery through on-going maintenance and monitoring the performance of machinery on a regular basis. There are various different of types of condition monitoring depending on the industry and application, these include-oil analysis,vibration monitoring and acoustic emissions testing.
Condition monitoring programs play a big part in many industrial companies and form a large part of their budget, as the cost of maintenance is much more cost affective than have to replace expensive plant machinery. For example if a piece of equipment breaks down then a day's production maybe lost due to unplanned maintenance and if the part that has broken down needs to be shipped in from somewhere else then it will much longer before the equipment is back up and running. This is why companies invest large sums of money in condition monitoring programs.
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Property, plant and equipment (PP&E) is a company asset that is vital to business operations but cannot be easily liquidated, and depending on the nature of a company's business.
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