Post by Scott Barratt

A maintenance worker died last year repairing an industrial overhead door at a Cardiff printing company. The company has just been fined £400,000. What got me about this one wasn’t the door itself. It was that there’d been two previous incidents involving the same doors failing and injuring employees, and no proper inspection or maintenance programme was ever put in place. On top of that, the worker who died had repeatedly been allowed to carry out repairs on equipment he hadn’t been trained to work on. Two warnings. No training. And eventually no margin for error left. That’s usually how the serious ones happen. Not out of nowhere, but after a pattern that everyone could see if they were looking. A near miss here, a failure reported there, each one on its own looking manageable. Stack a few together and you’ve got exactly the conditions for something far worse. Maintenance schedules and inspection regimes aren’t paperwork for the sake of it. They’re how you catch the second warning before it becomes the third, and the third before it becomes someone’s last day at work. If equipment in your business has had issues before, that’s not history. That’s information. https://lnkd.in/eWq9JTNJ