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Originally Posted by ojz0r View Post
There are no inches in thecivilizedthird world, only meters
I think you missed the point though. Its not always a deadly concern, sometimes it's just an injury concern because a machine used to meet regulation but doesn't anymore. If everybody flat out refused to work on a machine until the safety was upgraded.... there would be no business anymore, it's just not feasable so there has to be a middle ground, which I thought was with the company who owns the machine who is responsible for the safety of their employees. They must follow OSHA standards and are ultimately responsible for ensuring a machine meets the safety standards they came up with, which have to be at least the bare minimum for whatever process it is.
I missed responding to this, FWIW: This isn't a case of an old machine that isn't up to current code (or grandfathered out). This is a case of a machine that was built in-house by people who didn't know better in the last 5 years or so and this machine was NEVER up to codes and standards. It should have NEVER been designed or turned on in the first place.
Not sure which world you've been living in, but I've seen pints at 9.5 pounds already...A pint's a pound, the world around!
I missed responding to this, FWIW: This isn't a case of an old machine that isn't up to current code (or grandfathered out). This is a case of a machine that was built in-house by people who didn't know better in the last 5 years or so and this machine was NEVER up to codes and standards. It should have NEVER been designed or turned on in the first place.
That is why work orders should always be used without exception. No work order, no work.I was in a situation where a manager wanted me to replace a failed SSR without shutting the machine down (480 volts) I refused. He called another tech and asked him to do it, he also refused. Ultimately he had no choice but to shut it down.
Needless to say, I started looking for a different job after that incident and left a few months later.
Mike
Unless maintenance were the original "builders" of the Machine.That is why work orders should always be used without exception. No work order, no work.
This way, when a work order is submitted and maintenance, E&I, etc, start the work, the first thing is to turn it off and lock it out. Once the repair starts, maintenance owns the machine until the repair is finished and the equipment is put back in service and handed back over to production. This way, it doesn't make a rat's a$$ what the manager wants. It's out of his hands.
If you can't tell already, I have fought this battle before.