How to ensure Safety & Health Procedures during Asset Maintenance and Planning

We all recognize the daily intensive consultation regarding the scheduling of maintenance of our assets? These consultations between production department, safety & health department and maintenance department are often ad hoc decisions in which is mostly supported by the use of excel and mail.

reason prior to a shutdown or stop for planned maintenance the coordination of safety and health procedures such as Work Permits, LOTO (Lockout Tagout) are extremely important.

Grisel; “Today, one can use a highly integrated system where the production department, safety & health department and maintenance department can use the same data to identify key risks and is successfully able to mitigate those risks in an efficient way. Work Permit and LOTO integration in Maintenance Planning is required to reduce these risks during the maintenance process. The SAP ERP system in combination with the Ready4 Asset Management solution enables us to integrate Work Permits and LOTO and makes it visible prior to and during the planning of work orders & tasks and thus ensures that work can only be done on released and secured Assets”. Creating a safer working environment whilst gaining efficiency as an organization.

Nowadays securing health and safety in the workspace are even more important than in the past. We value safety of our customers and employees highly and are emotionally and by law obliged to do everything possible to make sure that this will be achieved.

> No risks are wanted. The consequences of not achieving this are incalculable in personal health and also financially the organizations are held accountable. In order to document the maintenance processes, organizations have implemented maintenance software as a supporting system where in many cases there is no integration with existing health & safety systems. “The production department needs to ensure that machines are secured so that the maintenance department can safely start to carry out maintenance. By having to search and consult various systems to perform these crucial and difficult tasks, the process is prone to mistakes with all consequences of this”, says Charles Grisel, Sr Account Manager at SOA People. “However, organizations try to avoid risks and reduce mistakes during the execution of the process”.

> Lockout Tagout more important than ever. Maintenance is a high-risk activity with specific hazards and risks for customers and engineers. For maintenance engineers, this includes working alongside a running process where they are in close contact with machinery. If mistakes are made, customers can also be effected. For that

> Looking forward to EuroMaintenance. Grisel; “SOA People is part of EuroMaintenance because we do feel that it’s important for organizations to adapt their business processes in order to be able to use an integrated system and optimize their maintenance. With the combination of tooling and business consulting services SOA People is the organization which can help you achieve efficiency goals and optimize the availability of your assets. Therefore we are here to improve your bottom line results”. <