Maintenance: state of the art and exploratory study Abstract Maintenance activities, which are essential in most companies, can have detrimental effects on the safety of all employees, mainly because the maintenance person must always enter hazardous zones to carry out his interventions. Except for lockout, very little work has been done on the protection of maintenance personnel during their interventions. Maintenance intervention safety is strongly linked to three factors: the equipment (the machines) that must be maintained and the configuration of the space around it; the appropriate training of maintenance personnel, sufficient knowledge about the machine involved, and the appropriateness of the tools; and work organization in the company. This report describes an exploratory project whose objectives were: to determine whether relationships exist between maintenance activities and occupational health and safety; to paint a portrait of maintenance; to review the literature relating to maintenance and OHS; and to develop a thematic research program. Furthermore, it contains an analysis of the maintenance accidents that have occurred in Québec. As well, the authors discuss lockout, machine design, confined spaces, and belt conveyors, At the end, they propose avenues for research, whose objective will be to fill in some of the gaps noted during the study or to generate new solutions for the diagnosed problems. Produced Under this Project Scientific Reports Maintenance - State of knowledge and exploratory study Research Report: R-578 Scientific Publications Transmission oil degradation warning systems and computing in agricultural tractorsLaurent Giraud, Ait-Kadi D., Constans B.Source : Journal of Fuels & Lubricants, SAE Transactions, section 4, Warrendale, 2000, p. 1237-1244A Hybrid Model for Fault Diagnosis in Manufacturing SystemsLaurent Giraud, Ait-Kadi D., Guillot M.Source : in Manufacturing Research and Technology, volume 16, Advances in Factories of the Future, CIM and Robotics, Costaftis, M. et Vernadat, F (éd.), Elsevier, 1993 p. 323-332Transmission oil degradation warning systems and computing in agricultural tractorsLaurent Giraud, Ait-Kadi D., Constans B.Source : in CEC/SAE International Spring Fuels & Lubricants Meeting & Exposition, (19-22 juin, 2000 : Paris, France), 2000, SAE # 2000-01-1873La sécurité et la maintenance… une forte problématiqueTanchoux S., Laurent Giraud, Ait-Kadi D.Source : in Des SSTratégies... pour des résultats durables : 26e congrès de l’Association québécoise pour l’hygiène, la santé et la sécurité du travail / AQHSST, (26e : 5-7 mai, 2004 : Montréal, Canada), CD-ROM, 2004, 8 p.Liens entre sécurité et maintenance… une forte problématiqueTanchoux S., Laurent Giraud, Ait-Kadi D.Source : in Actes du colloque la santé et la sécurité du travail au Québec: une collaboration multidisciplinaire : Congrès de l'ACFAS (11-12 mai, 2004 : Montréal, Canada), Réseau de recherche en santé et en sécurité du travail du Québec / RRSSTQ, 2004, Module B, (http://www.rrsstq.com/stock/fra/conferences0072.pdf)Prise en compte de la sécurité lors de la conception des transporteurs à bandeLaurent Giraud, Massé S.Source : in Qualita : Congrès international pluridisciplinaire qualité et sûreté de fonctionnement, (6e : 16-18 mars, 2005 : Bordeaux, France), Qualité et sûreté de fonctionnement, Actes du congrès, vol. 2, Bordeaux, Ed. Yves Dutuit, Daniel Noyes et François Pérès, 2005, p. 749-756Étude des accidents graves et mortels lors des interventions de maintenance au QuébecLaurent GiraudSource : in Actes du colloque - La recherche en SST: Anciens risques et enjeux actuels : Congrès de l'ACFAS (3e : 17-19 mai, 2006 : Montréal, Canada), Réseau de recherche en santé et en sécurité du travail du Québec / RRSSTQ, 2006, (http://www.rrsstq.qc.ca/stock/fra/fichier0156.pdf) Other Project(s) You May be Interested in Comparative analysis of machine accidents in the maintenance and production phaseConfined Space Risk Management — Study on the Use of Permanent Collective Protection Measures Additional Information Type: Project Number: 0099-2030 Status: Completed Year of completion: 2005 Research Field: Mechanical and Physical Risk Prevention Team: Laurent Giraud (IRSST)Daoud Ait-Kadi (Université Laval)Joseph-Jean Paques (IRSST)Élise Ledoux (IRSST)Jean-Guy Richard (IRSST)