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Machinery & Equipment MRO
April 2022
PLANNING AND SCHEDULING BOLSTERS SAFETY AND SUCCESS A company’s financial success is meaningless without safety.
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lant maintenance ensures that assets run reliably to create financial profits. However, there is no sense in any company success if individuals are not ensured complete safety. Conveniently, the best maintenance practice of planning and scheduling bolsters both personal safety and company success. Maintenance planning and scheduling, together, replace dangerous reactive work with safer proactive work.
They make any work safer, especially over the years. Additionally, they make a plant more reliable with fewer explosions and other unfortunate events that endanger everyone. Maintenance work is dangerous, especially reactive maintenance, as it includes working on serious assets that can grab, cut, bite, pinch, and squash. Fortunately, we have skilled and experienced crafts that know how to handle the work. They have done the work
many times over the years and know what to expect. Unfortunately, maintenance is also routine enough to make even the best of us complacent. We take our eyes off the ball for a minute and get hurt. Consequently, maintenance is one of our most dangerous professions. Of all work, reactive maintenance is the worst. An emergency or urgent priority job begs rushing. The operators must have the equipment back in service. We
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BY DOC PALMER
