2. Maintenance:
Helps to keep workplaces functioning safely
and efficiently
Affects every workplace, in every industry sector
Concerns everyone in an organisation, at every level
3. Maintenance can involve inspecting equipment and facilities, and
servicing, repairing or replacing them.
It includes:
Acting when something fails
(corrective maintenance), or
(Ideally) - preventing it failing in the first place
(preventive maintenance)
4. Maintenance is easy to overlook. But without regular maintenance
in the workplace:
Things can go catastrophically wrong
Either through accidents or exposure to harmful
substances
Causing occupational disease, serious injury, or death
5. BUT: Maintenance can also be risky itself.
At work:
10-15% of all fatal accidents
15-20% of all accidents
are maintenance-related.
6. Maintenance workers are much more likely to be exposed to
hazards, including
physical hazards such as noise, vibration, excessive
heat and cold
chemical hazards, or harmful substances such as
asbestos
biological hazards such as bacteria
psychosocial hazards such as stress
7. So it is vital that maintenance is carried out properly.
For European organisations:
Safe maintenance is first and foremost a legal
responsibility
Council Directive 89/391 – the ‘Framework Directive’
The moral duty to keep workers safe
The financial cost of getting maintenance wrong, to
workers themselves, to the organisations they work for,
and to the wider society
Then there is:
8. The specific details of maintenance vary between industry sectors.
But in each case it needs to involve:
Planning in advance
A structured approach based on risk assessment
Clear roles and responsibilities
Clear guidelines
Adequate training and equipment
Regular checks to make sure it is done properly
9. The five basic rules for safe maintenance:
One: Planning:
Collecting information
Making sure that maintenance workers are competent to
carry it out
Making it clear who’s in charge
Assessing the risks involved
10. The five basic rules for safe maintenance:
Two. Making the area safe:
Shutting off power
Securing machinery
Keeping people out who
aren’t involved
11. The five basic rules for safe maintenance:
Three. Using appropriate equipment – including
personal protective equipment.
12. The five basic rules for safe maintenance:
Four. Working as planned – without improvising or
taking short-cuts due to time pressure.
13. The five basic rules for safe maintenance:
Five. Making final checks – ensuring that everything is
safe before work processes start again.
14. The Europe-wide Healthy Workplaces Campaign 2010-2011
therefore aims to raise awareness:
Of the importance of maintenance
Of the risks if it is not carried out
properly
15. Important dates:
Campaign launch:
28 April 2010 on the World Day for Occupational
Safety and Health
European Week for Safety and Health at Work:
October 2010 and October 2011
Good Practice Awards event:
28 April 2011
Campaign closing event:
November 2011
16. Who can take part?
The Campaign is open to all individuals and organisations:
Public and private sector employers (including SMEs)
Managers, supervisors, workers
Trade unions
Occupational safety and health professionals
17. You can get involved by:
Disseminating Campaign information and materials, in
your own organisation and among those you work with
Taking part in Campaign activities and events, eg the
Good Practice Awards, which promote innovative
approaches to safe maintenance
Organising your own activities, eg: training sessions,
conferences, competitions and quizzes, suggestion
schemes, advertising campaigns
18. Organisations taking part in the Campaign receive a certificate of
participation.
Pan-European organisations can also apply to be Campaign
partners, and receive:
Recognition (with their logos and contact
details listed on the Campaign website)
Publicity for the events they organise
around the Campaign
19. The Agency provides many resources to support the Campaign:
A Campaign guide and factsheets
Case studies of good practice
Presentations and animated video clips
News about Campaign events
all in the 22 official EU languages.
20. To find out about Campaign events near you:
Visit the Campaign website
http://hw.osha.europa.eu
Contact your national focal point
to find out about events
{Insert contact details focal point}
21. A EUROPEAN CAMPAIGN ON SAFE MAINTENANCE
HEALTHY WORKPLACES
GOOD FOR YOU. GOOD FOR BUSINESS
http://hw.osha.europa.eu
