By planning ahead and predicting when your site infrastructure needs maintenance can save industrial and commercial sites a fortune on downtime. Being prepared with your site maintenance also means that you can schedule ahead, slotting the appropriate maintenance in at quiet times of the year, or planning it at night when it is less likely to impact the productivity of your operation.
Predictive maintenance should not only consider previous experiences and data, it’s also a good idea to allow for scaling. Is your operation manufacturing 10% more every year? Well, the chances are then, that you’ll have 10% more trucks transporting your goods offsite, and likely your asphalt will need resurfacing 10% sooner than when you produced less and freighted less frequently.
The same site maintenance scaling concept applies for retail. If you’re a Shopping Centre or Home Maker’s Centre who is responsible for keeping hashings, carpark markings, and non-slip surfaces intact for the safety of customers, predicting your linemarking or resurfacing activities based on quiet retail months could leave you in the lurch!
We’ve all seen the darker side of humanity when drivers are unable to navigate their way out of carpark gridlock quickly due to emergency maintenance at Christmas time. Predicting likely wear ahead of busy times helps you prepare for those demanding times, ensuring your maintenance is carried out before it becomes an emergency repair.
Predicting site maintenance needs based on weather and seasons is another incredibly beneficial way to ensure you’re not paying extra to have work done as a matter of urgency. Here are some seasonal considerations that could save you time, expense, and trouble heading into summer:
Before Summer
- Slashing of your Asset Protection zone or fire break
- Servicing of Air Conditioners, checking footings or slabs for cracks
- Ensuring irrigation systems are installed and working
- Check the footings/foundations of pump houses
- Check ventilation systems are clear and working
- Poison weeds
- Topdress lawns
Before wet weather
- Check that gutters and drains are free of debris
- Ensure your current drainage can handle the volume of water expected. If not, install more drainage
- Ensure the surfaces of roads, driveways, footpaths, and hard stand surfaces are intact so that water will flow off rather than sit and destroy the foundations
- Refresh nonslip coatings and markings especially on walkways and stairs.
If you’d like a more exhaustive checklist of suggested regular Site Maintenance activities, we have a free downloadable site maintenance checklist.
To find out more about how we can help your site stay on top of operations though providing quality, reliable site maintenance support, chat to John on 0448 860 045 or fill complete our enquiry form.
