Standard Operating Procedures maintenance practices

Standard operating procedures, maintenance procedures, emergency response plan procedures, administrative procedures, safe work practices... 

Other information may also benefit the PHA. Standard operating procedures for processing equipment, safe work practices, maintenance or job safety analyses, emergency response plans could be appropriate review items for some PHAs depending upon the toll. 

This chapter describes how to be more successful in HPLC operation by summarizing a series of standard operating procedures representing the best practices of experienced HPLC analysts. It offers some brief guidelines on maintenance/troubleshooting and on means of enhancing HPLC assay precision. 

Good Housekeeping appropriate provisions to prevent leaks and spills and to achieve proper, standardized operation and maintenance procedures and practices... 

The interpretation of quality assurance is, according to ISO 9000, all those planned and systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that the product or service will satisfy given requirements for quality . Basic elements of quality assurance are quality policy and activities of quality assurance programs, e.g., calibration, collaborative studies, good measurement practice (GMP), standard operating procedure (SOP), staff training, and instrument maintenance and inspection (audit). 

Personal protective eqnipment shonld not be used as a substitute for engineering controls or work practices. It shonld be used in conjunction with these controls to provide for employee safety and health in the workplace. The basic element of any management program for PPE should be an in depth evaluation of the equipment needed to protect against the hazards at the work place. Management should use that evaluation to set a standard operating procedure for personnel, then train employees on the protective limitations of personal protective equipment, and its proper nse and maintenance. 

If engineered controls are not feasible, administrative controls should be considered. Administrative controls include safe work practices, such as the utility s general workplace rules, standard operating procedures, or other operation-specific regulations. For example, even when a hazard is enclosed, exposure can occur during maintenance of the enclosed equipment. Through established safe work practices that incorporate additional protective measures when conducting maintenance operations, employee exposure to hazards can be further reduced. Administrative control measures also include additional relief workers, exercise breaks, and rotation of workers. These types of control are normally used in conjunction with other controls that more directly prevent or control exposure to the hazard. 

A team consists of two or more people that know the process technology, design, operating procedures, practices, alarms, emergency procedures, test and maintenance procedures, routine and non-routine tasks. They must consider authorization and procurement of parts and supplies, safety and health standards, codes, specifications and regulations. The team leader provides m.iriagcment and goals to the process the team and consultants construct and interpret the analyses. 

Aircraft maintenance. Despite the intense media coverage of air tragedies, flying remains the safest mode of transportation by far. The reliability and safety record of aircraft operators is indeed enviable by most industrial standards. This success is directly attributable to the fact that modem aircraft maintenance practices are far removed from reliance on retroactive corrective procedures. Other industries can leam several valuable lessons from current aircraft maintenance methodologies. 

Pilot plants are often more hazardous than process plants, even though they are smaller ia size, for many reasons. These iaclude a tendency to relax standard safety review procedures based on the small scale, exceptionally qualified personnel iavolved, and the experimental nature of the research operations the lack of estabhshed operational practice and experience lack of information regarding new materials or processes and lack of effective automatic iatedocks due to the frequendy changing nature of pilot-plant operations, the desire for wide latitude in operating conditions, and the lack of hill-time maintenance personnel. 

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