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Equipment Maintenance

a. PURPOSE

The purpose of this procedure is to ensure that company owned construction equipment
is maintained in a satisfactory condition so as to enable it to function as required when
required and facilitate continued production.

b. SCOPE OF APPLICATION

Unless otherwise stated, this procedure applies to all equipment owned by the company
that affects quality or production.

c. DEFINITIONS
None

d. CROSS REFERENCE
 Quality Manual (Clause d.9)

e. RESPONSIBILITY FOR APPLICATION
Workshop in charge is responsible for the application of this procedure.

f. PROCESS
f.1 Preventive Maintenance

f.1.1 Workshop in Charge prepares a preventive maintenance programme
covering all machines, plants, equipment used for construction purposes.
f.1.2 Preventive maintenance activities will be performed by experienced
Mechanics or by external workshops (sub-contractor).
f.1.3 The maintenance will be performed as per the programme. A Maximum
one week will be allowed to depart from the programme depending on
availability of the machine and release from relevant site.
f.1.4 All operatives are required to carry out daily visual checks on equipment.
For Mechanical items this should include fluid levels and greases and any
“topping-up” undertaken where required. Where problems or potential
problems are identified on site this should be brought to the attention of
the Project Engineer / Workshop In Charge for action.
f.1.5 The maintenance In Charge will arrange to perform the maintenance and
update machine records and programme accordingly.

f.2 Breakdown Maintenance

f.2.1 The Project Engineer shall requisition attendance to breakdowns of
equipment owned by the company in the same way that preventive
maintenance is requisitioned. Where the equipment has been hired from
outside the Project Engineer shall contact the supplier direct to request
attendance.
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