Operator care routines: clean, inspect, lubricate and tag

Skills you'll practise

• Explain what operator care adds to planned maintenance and where its boundaries are
• Follow a care standard: what to check, how, with what, the OK condition and how often
• Read visual controls (gauge bands, sight-glass lines, match marks, lubricant labels) and recognize an abnormal condition
• Choose the correct lubricant and amount from the care standard and refuse a substitute
• Tag, record and report an abnormality, and decide whether it is an operator fix or a maintenance job

Course outline

1. 1.Operator care routines: clean, inspect, lubricate and tagVideo · 2 min
2. 2.What operator care is (and isn't)Lesson · 14 min
3. 3.Care standards and visual controlsLesson · 15 min
4. 4.Abnormalities: tag, report, follow throughLesson · 16 min
5. 5.Operator care routines: clean, inspect, lubricate and tag: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 questions
6. 6.Operator care routines: clean, inspect, lubricate and tag: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
7. 7.Final exam8 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• Total productive maintenance (overview, including the autonomous maintenance pillar)
• HSE: Maintenance of work equipment (PUWER) (UK example)
• HSE: Inspection of work equipment (PUWER regulation 6) (UK example)
• Your employer's safety procedures, risk assessments and site rules (these govern)