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Safety Inspection

Slip/Trip & Guarding Walk

Wet processing floors make slips the most common recordable injury in food and beverage plants. Drainage, matting, and condensation management are maintenance problems that present as safety problems.

Interval Monthly
Est. Duration 1.0 hr
Steps 3
Applies To Food & Beverage Manufacturing

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. Inspect wet-area drainage and matting
  2. Check conveyor guarding and e-stops
  3. Verify floor markings and exit routes

Why This PM Exists

Wet processing floors make slips the most common recordable injury in food and beverage plants. Drainage, matting, and condensation management are maintenance problems that present as safety problems.

What Skipping It Looks Like

A steady background rate of slip injuries that gets treated as unavoidable, when it is usually three specific drains and one leaking fitting.

Setting the interval

Monthly walk covering wet areas, drainage, and matting condition.

Common Questions

How often should this PM run?
Monthly. Monthly walk covering wet areas, drainage, and matting condition.
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 steady background rate of slip injuries that gets treated as unavoidable, when it is usually three specific drains and one leaking fitting.
Can I use this checklist in ChatterFix?
Yes — this exact procedure ships in the Food & Beverage Manufacturing industry pack. Pick your industry at signup and it is scheduled on the right assets automatically, with no configuration.

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