Safe Maintenance Practice
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
Maintenance is not only necessary to ensure reliability of
technical structures or productivity of the company, but regular
maintenance has an important role in providing safer and healthier
working conditions.
While maintenance is absolutely essential to keep equipment,
machines and the work environment safe and reliable and prevent
harm, the maintenance work itself is a high-risk activity.
This report provides below provides information on successful
initiatives in the workplace illustrating how 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.
The new approaches presented in this report demonstrate clearly
that good occupational safety and health (OSH) management practices
are at the heart of reliable and safe maintenance.
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