Most dairy plants cool with anhydrous ammonia, and many hold enough of it to fall under OSHA's Process Safety Management standard. A weekly walkdown — gauge readings, frost and oil patterns, detector status, ventilation — creates the record that mechanical-integrity programs depend on, and it catches a small leak before it becomes an evacuation.
The steps ChatterFix schedules for this PM. Every step is a checkable item on the work order — a technician can speak their way through it without touching a keyboard.
Most dairy plants cool with anhydrous ammonia, and many hold enough of it to fall under OSHA's Process Safety Management standard. A weekly walkdown — gauge readings, frost and oil patterns, detector status, ventilation — creates the record that mechanical-integrity programs depend on, and it catches a small leak before it becomes an evacuation.
Ice builds on a valve and becomes part of the scenery. A detector sits in fault for a week. Readings live in someone's head. When something does go wrong there is no baseline to compare against, and the first response is an alarm, not a work order.
Weekly is common, with daily operator rounds in larger systems. This is an inspect-and-record check: leaks, detector alarms and anything that opens the system go to people trained and authorised under the site's PSM and emergency action programs.
This procedure — and every other PM for your industry — is already built into ChatterFix. Pick your industry and it lands on the right equipment, on the right interval, in about three minutes.