By properly maintaining your company’s machinery, you can significantly reduce repair and replacement costs on your equipment. You can also help to ensure your machinery will stay up to code, based upon OSHA regulations, and thus help to make certain your facility is a safe place for your employees to work.

Preventative maintenance is, unfortunately, too often overlooked in Safety and Health Management Systems. But to overlook preventative maintenance is to do a great disservice to your company. By following manufacturer recommended maintenance procedures, you extend the life of your equipment. This includes everything from daily lubrications and system cleaning to annual system checks and part replacements. Preventative maintenance also helps to guarantee that all inbuilt safety protocols are fully functional.

If preventative maintenance is not a part of your current Safety and Health Management System, don’t fret. Adding preventative maintenance guidelines is actually quite simple. First, you need to go through all of the equipment in your facility, properly inventorying what you have. Next, you need to go through each device and determine what preventative care is required so that you can track that it is done. Finally, you need to create a preventative maintenance placard for each device to track that your employees are actually doing the required maintenance. If your current system relies upon your employees to remember what devices to service and when, you are leaving yourself open to potential issues from human error. A placard reduces this risk, as employees do not need to remember each system’s maintenance requirements.

If you have any questions about establishing a preventative maintenance program, or if you need placards for your equipment, please contact us. If you have any information on preventative maintenance, please leave a comment.