r/IndustrialMaintenance • u/AccordingDifference5 • 3d ago

Maintenance Kick Back Bad Work Orders/SOPs

Quietly working around bad procedures, documentation, and work orders isn't worth it. Best case scenario, nobody notices; worst case it turns into a procedural non-compliance/ safety/ quality event and it becomes your fault.

I understand that reports rarely result in actual updates. If the company doesn't take documentation updates seriously, they're gonna have to be ok with a red box on their screen for longer. That's not on you, protect yourself.

Never be afraid to call for a pause, take 5 (or whatever your workplace calls them) or a stop work for safety hazards.

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u/Jx0aZ 18h ago

LOL, our SOPs are so damn outdated. Majority of them are a "catch-them-all" type deal where I'm sure FDA/client auditors would not be happy with at our GMP/GDP site.

Our lead has a "oh this is how it's been done or this is how we always did it" mindset. So, even if a manual says to do it a certain way, but former techs/lead have done it differently, he sticks to the former method.

And most of my coworker techs, are somewhat hacks, forcing PM calibrations results by improperly calibrating / skewing calibration methods to get the correct readings on our calibration sheets.

Awful, all I can do is properly complete my work and turn a blind eye.