Health and Safety Requirements for Planned Maintenance Activities
Health and Safety Requirements for Planned Maintenance Activities
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Questions:
Describe the health and safety requirements of the area in which the planned maintenance activity is to take place, and the responsibility these requirements place on the learner
Describe the isolation and lock?off procedure or permit?to?work procedure that applies to maintenance activities (such as electrical isolation, locking off switch gear, removal of fuses, placing of maintenance warning notices, proving the isolation has been achieved and secured)
Describe the specific health and safety precautions to be applied during the planned maintenance activities, and their effects on others
Describe the importance of wearing protective clothing and other appropriate safety equipment during the maintenance activities
Explain how to recognise and deal with victims of electric shock (to include methods of safely removing the victim from the power source, isolating the power source, and methods of first aid resuscitation)
Describe the hazards associated with carrying out planned maintenance activities on electrical equipment (such as exposure to live conductors, misuse of tools), and how to minimise these and reduce any risks
Explain how to obtain and interpret drawings, circuit and physical layouts, charts, specifications, manufacturers’ manuals, history/maintenance reports, graphical electrical symbols, BS7671/IEE wiring regulations, and other documents needed in the maintenance activities
Describe the maintenance schedules and methods to be followed in order to comply with company procedures for planned maintenance on electrical equipment
Describe the basic principle of operation of the equipment/circuits being maintained, and the function/purpose of individual components within the circuit
Describe the different types of cabling, and their application (such as multicore cables, single core cables, steel wire armoured (SWA), mineral insulated (MI), screened cables)
Describe the different types of electric motors and motor starters, and their maintenance requirements
Describe the different types of control system, their various components and maintenance requirements
Describe the application and use of a range of electrical components (such as plugs, switches, sockets, lighting and fittings, junction boxes, consumer units), and the types of checks required for each of them
Describe the various lighting systems used (including tungsten, sodium, mercury vapour and fluorescent), and their maintenance requirements
Describe the different types of wiring enclosure that are used (to include conduit, trunking and tray work systems), and what to check during the maintenance activities
Describe the methods of checking that components are fit for purpose, and the need to replace ‘lifed’ items (such as motor brushes, seals and gaskets, and overload protection devices)
Explain how to make sensory checks (by sight, sound, smell, touch)
Explain how to check that the replacement components meet the required specification/operating conditions (such as values, tolerance, current carrying capacity, voltage rating, power rating, working temperature range)
Describe the various planned maintenance categories that are generally used (such as condition based maintenance, scheduled maintenance and total preventative maintenance (TPM))
Describe the procedure for obtaining the consumables to be used during the planned maintenance activity
Describe the appropriate testing procedures to be adopted during the maintenance activity
Explain how to compile planned maintenance records/logs/reports that comply with company policy and procedures
Describe the equipment operating and control procedures, and how to apply them in order to carry out planned maintenance
Describe the problems that can occur whilst carrying out the planned maintenance activities, and how they can be avoided
Describe the organisational procedure to be adopted for the safe disposal of waste of all types of materials
Describe the extent of their own authority and to whom they should report if they have problems that they cannot resolve