Emergency eyewash and safety showers are the last line of defence in a lab, and they fail silently. Stagnant supply lines grow biofilm, valves seize, and access gets blocked by stored equipment — none of which is apparent until someone needs the station within the seconds that matter for a chemical splash. Alongside that, chemical inventories accumulate their own hazard: peroxide-forming chemicals past shelf life become shock-sensitive.
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.
Emergency eyewash and safety showers are the last line of defence in a lab, and they fail silently. Stagnant supply lines grow biofilm, valves seize, and access gets blocked by stored equipment — none of which is apparent until someone needs the station within the seconds that matter for a chemical splash. Alongside that, chemical inventories accumulate their own hazard: peroxide-forming chemicals past shelf life become shock-sensitive.
An eyewash that has never been flushed delivers contaminated water into an injured eye. A blocked shower is unreachable exactly when it is needed. On the storage side, aged peroxide formers and lapsed segregation build a hazard that typically surfaces during a lab clear-out — often handled by whoever is least equipped to recognise it.
Monthly activation and flush of every station, with an annual full performance test against the standard. Chemical inventory review at least termly, and immediately before any lab clear-out or relocation.
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.