It is better to plan testing of equipment like cranes, hoists, other material handling equipment, pressure vessels, safety relief valves, calibration of instruments, inspection and repairs of structures and buildings, painting of equipment/piping/structures, preventive maintenance of equipment, load centres, transformers, PDBs, DG sets; cleaning of drains, etc in the beginning of the financial year at which time stress levels are supposed to be low compared to the last quarter of a financial year. Even refresher courses can be planned and conducted wherein managers will relieve their staff to attend the programmes.
This will facilitate ensuring readiness of men and machinery and other infrastructure for safe work without accidents, incidents.
Safety monitoring should be done more stringently during peak production periods which will indicate the safety culture of the organization in times of pressures all around.
