Maintenance is not only necessary to ensure the reliability of technical systems or a company’s productivity; regular maintenance also plays a key role in creating safer and healthier working conditions. While maintenance is absolutely essential for maintaining the safety and reliability of equipment, machinery, and the work environment, and for preventing damage, maintenance work itself is a high-risk activity. This report provides information on successful workplace initiatives, illustrating how the safety and health risks associated with maintenance can be managed. Many companies, insurers, and authorities have successfully developed solutions to improve safety and health during maintenance work. The new approaches presented in this report clearly demonstrate that good occupational safety and health (OSH) management practices are central to reliable and safe maintenance.
Published on 24/11/2010 by EU-OSHA
