Expansion joint, bellows and flexible connector inspection
A flexible connector with an unknown installation date is a failure with an unknown date. Record the date; the life does the rest.
What does an expansion joint, bellows and flexible connector inspection involve?
Expansion joint, bellows and flexible connector inspection checks: visible corrosion, distortion or leakage; cycle count where recorded; age against the manufacturer's life. Observed by visual inspection; leak detection; age register. Bellows and flexible connectors have a manufacturer life and should be replaced on age or cycles, which is a fixed rule; leakage converts to a detector, but the visual stays.
- Condition that replaces the interval
- None that replaces a visual for most joints; a life limit by cycle count or age applies to bellows, and a leak detector under the joint catches the failure mode
- Reading that proves it
- Visible corrosion, distortion or leakage; cycle count where recorded; age against the manufacturer's life
- Why the interval stays
- Bellows and flexible connectors have a manufacturer life and should be replaced on age or cycles, which is a fixed rule; leakage converts to a detector, but the visual stays.
- Evidence an auditor accepts
- Inspection record per joint with its installation date and the replacement date derived from the life
- First move
- Date-tag every flexible connector and bellows on the list now.
What it is evidence for
Clause references from the published standards text. A clause marked reference is named, not reproduced.
Calendar tasks a monitored condition could replace ISO 55001:2014 9.1 · ISO 55001:2014 8.1 · ISO 55001:2014 6.2.2 · ISO 55001:2014 8.2 · ISO 55001:2014 10.3 · ISO 45001:2018 8.1.3
ISO 55001:2014 9.1 Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluationThe organization decides what is to be monitored and measured, which methods of monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation will give valid results, when monitoring and measuring take place, and when results are analysed and evaluated. It assesses and reports on how the assets perform, on how asset management perf...
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ISO 55001:2014 6.2.2 Planning to achieve asset management objectivesThe organization joins up its planning for asset management objectives with the rest of its planning, including finance, human resources and other support functions. It sets up, documents and maintains asset management plans that state the method and criteria for making decisions, the processes and methods for managing...
ISO 55001:2014 8.2 Management of changeBefore any planned change is made, whether temporary or permanent, that could affect whether the asset management objectives are met, its risks are assessed, and the organization makes sure those risks are handled as 6.1 and 6.2.2 require. It controls changes it has planned and reviews the consequences of changes that ...
ISO 55001:2014 10.3 Continual improvementThe organization keeps making both its asset management and its system for it more suitable, more adequate and more effective.
ISO 45001:2018 8.1.3 Management of changeThe organization sets up processes to put in place, and keep under control, planned changes, temporary or permanent, that affect OH&S performance. These include: new products, services and processes, or alterations to existing ones (such as where workplaces are and what surrounds them, how work is organized, working co...
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