Ensuring safety with the handling of equipments
Safety in a business environment is not just putting up a ‘Beware!’ and a caution notice on the wall before a hazardous machine. Safety is a value which needs to be ingrained in the culture of a company. Rather than a policy followed it should be a matter of habit.
However, when a new employee joins a business, he may take sometime to ingrain the concept of safety in his habit. At that time, he has to rely on the operating procedures, job tasks and his supervisor’s oversight. It is here that a good Enterprise Asset Management system comes into picture ensuring that all the operating procedures are available when executing a planned work order.
When a big equipment is installed, it comes along with all the operating and maintaining procedures with built in safety procedures. Also attached are document sets with the ‘Lock-out’ and ‘Tag-out’ procedure sequences that are used to isolate energy systems. The enterprises can take the help of these in planning their jobs and also building in preventive maintenance schedules in the asset management system. This will keep things in order when the experts installing the equipment leave.
With those jobs which have no preset working instructions available, the asset management system should provide for an energy view in the form of either hierarchical or network system along with lock-out and tag-out steps.
Another important aspect of the duty of a material handling management system is identifying ‘hot jobs’ and ‘cold jobs’ and then ensuring that no two ‘hot jobs’ are happening in the vicinity at the same time.
In a nutshell, safety is a habit and a culture. It is upon us how much importance we assign to this most important concept in our jobs.
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