Preventative Maintenance is now considered a basic form of maintenance, it is being bypassed with Predictive and Prescriptive Maintenance since they are more efficient, cost effective. That being said, Preventative can still be critical. Sometimes we think of Preventative as maintaining Capital Assets to ‘prevent’ breakdowns. That is a piece of the pie, but often ignored are preventing code violations. During some recent Facility Inspections i came across fire extinguishers that had not had monthly inspections, and annuals in two years, emergency lighting that didn’t work, outlets and switches with no covers, a 240 panel with the cover on the floor and the list goes on. Putting these things on the Preventative Maintenance Schedule keeps us legal, our facilities and building employees safe, and Facilities staff out and about looking at things regularly, seeing things that need a WO to fix them. We need to include fire door inspections, exit door inspections, electrical panel inspections, back flow valve inspections, water heater inspections and flushing, eye wash and shower inspections and dozens of others scheduled to keep compliant, to keep life safety issues to a minimum. Major assets need predictive and prescriptive maintenance, but minor assets, life safety assets need preventative maintenance, it is not going away, it is still critical, just for a less expensive set of assets.
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