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Safety Inspection

Explosives Exclusion

Explosives exclusion reads open work orders and confirms they stay on crushers, screens, trucks, pumps, conveyors, and dust equipment. The technician writes the as-found reading and compares it with the last one on the asset. Blasting, magazines, and explosives handling are not these tasks. Anything past that line belongs to the site's own procedure, the OEM manual, or a permit. This is the inspection ChatterFix schedules. It is not itself permission to go further.

Interval Monthly
Est. Duration 1.0 hr
Steps 5
Applies To Mining & Aggregates

The Procedure

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.

  1. Sample open work orders and confirm none mention blasting, magazines or explosives handling
  2. Confirm this pack's tasks stay on crushers, screens, trucks, pumps, conveyors and dust equipment
  3. Confirm a separate explosives program exists at the site if the site blasts, and that it is not these work orders
  4. Check crusher and screen lockout points in the sample match the field
  5. Stop a work order that starts to read like a blast plan

Why This PM Exists

Explosives exclusion reads open work orders and confirms they stay on crushers, screens, trucks, pumps, conveyors, and dust equipment. The technician writes the as-found reading and compares it with the last one on the asset. Blasting, magazines, and explosives handling are not these tasks. Anything past that line belongs to the site's own procedure, the OEM manual, or a permit. This is the inspection ChatterFix schedules. It is not itself permission to go further.

What Skipping It Looks Like

A blast plan gets pasted into a maintenance work order because that is the document people already know how to open. The round still closes, the number never lands on the asset, and the next person inherits a guess. Blasting, magazines, and explosives handling are not these tasks.

Setting the interval

Monthly. A job that starts to read like a blast plan is stopped. An as-found reading outside the limit the site already published is a finding. It does not become a new setpoint on this work order.

Common Questions

How often should this PM run?
Monthly. Monthly. A job that starts to read like a blast plan is stopped. An as-found reading outside the limit the site already published is a finding. It does not become a new setpoint on this work order.
How long does it take?
Budget about 1.0 hour for a technician working to the standard procedure. ChatterFix uses that estimate for capacity planning, then learns your plant's actual time from completed work orders.
What happens if we skip it?
A blast plan gets pasted into a maintenance work order because that is the document people already know how to open. The round still closes, the number never lands on the asset, and the next person inherits a guess. Blasting, magazines, and explosives handling are not these tasks.
Can I use this checklist in ChatterFix?
Yes — this exact procedure ships in the Mining & Aggregates industry pack. Pick your industry at signup and it is scheduled on the right assets automatically, with no configuration.

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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.