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Lock it out for safety!
From his earliest days as a junior apprentice mechanical engineer at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, to his current role as global director of parks and attractions at the Mobaro Park Group, David Bromilow has seen a number of changes in his 42 plus years in the industry. With his work as chairman of the IAAPA EMEA safety committee and as a member of the IAAPA global safety committee, he has also served the wider industry safety community. Here, he talks to Park World editor Becci Knowles about the development of ride and attraction maintenance checklist programmes.
available; the methods by which it is achieved however, has – and continues to be – refined. David remembers the early days of pre-morning checks
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well: “As a young engineer conducting pre-opening maintenance and safety checks back in ’76, my senior engineer would direct me around the ride pointing. He would say, “Ok David, keep an eye on these welds, put six squirts of lube in the sweep bearings here and there, and make sure you cannot see the rivet heads on the drive liners!” We signed the operations log on the ride and off we went in search of a cup of tea….” In a world before the Internet it’s hard to imagine how any
of the more complex problems could have been solved without at least some ride downtime - where did David and the team get all the information they needed, so quickly? “It came from the experience of the engineer and a dog-eared manufacturer’s manual back in the workshop. Not to mention that elusive engineer’s notebook he kept in the top pocket of his overalls….” David tells me. “Today’s pre-opening safety and PPM (planned
preventative maintenance) checks are conducted in much the same way every morning in every park around the world. However, the difference today is we have enhanced maintenance and safety information, technical team training and much superior documentation and manufacturer support, and the break rooms are more likely to be equipped with coffee machines, rather than an old kettle!”
JANUARY 2019
Safety is and has always been the number one priority of the attractions industry, with theme parks providing one of the safest forms of recreation
In the early 80’s David took a career shift into maintenance
and safety consultancy and inspection. “That’s when I started using a generic style of ride and attraction maintenance and inspection checklist. These checklists, although thankfully short- lived, provided the step change to essentially where we are today with very specific and advanced checklists procedures, documentation and systems,” he says. These generic checklists provided a sensible way of
breaking down a ride into sub systems to identify it for inspection and possibly a particular maintenance protocol, such as a lube or adjustment schedule. “I use this very same method today when developing content for ride check and PPM programmes – break it down into logical ride sub systems. That said, I do have the added detail of the check or PPM to be conducted listed within each sub section. I also take guidance and direction from manufacturer manuals and industry ride standards and of course, rely on a pinch of knowledge from my years of writing and developing such programmes!”
Advice to operators When writing a check protocol, David advises including the details the maintenance team need at the sharp end. “Ensure you provide and deliver a comprehensive documented training regime for the maintenance team members and audit your programme and team against this training and set of procedures.” “Manufacturers for the most part provide outstanding documentation for service and inspection programmes for the rides, some better than others.
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