Thought often overlooked, preventative maintenance should be of serious concern to every business owner and safety team. Properly maintaining machinery can increase the life of machinery, decrease the repair costs, and ensure safety protocols remain effective. The best safety equipment in the world is made ineffective with time if not properly maintained.

For maximum efficiency, preventative maintenance should be included in any Safety and Health management System. These systems are designed to ensure safety at every level in a company, and it is rare that you can include in your Safety and Health Management System something that is also so important to your company’s bottom line. But following manufacturer defined routine maintenance really does cut costs while keeping the workplace safer.

If preventative maintenance is not currently a part of your Safety and Health Management System, it is quite easy to incorporate it. First, you need to go through all of your machinery, inventorying exactly what you have, Then, you have to find out what the required maintenance is for each item. Finally, you just add preventative maintenance placards to each device, and create a section in the Safety and Health Management System dedicated to the procedures around following these placards.

If you are ready to establish a preventative maintenance plan for your company, or want more information on how it will benefit you, specifically, feel free to contact us and we can walk you through the entire process. If you have established a preventative maintenance plan for your business and would like to share your thoughts on the topic, please leave a comment.