| name | Shift handover |
| description | Hand over a line so the next shift starts informed rather than discovering. |
| category | operations |
Handing over a shift
The incoming shift needs what will affect them, not a diary of what happened.
Cover, in this order
Safety — anything unsafe, isolated, or with a permit open.
Running state — what is running, what is down, what is degraded and how.
In progress — jobs part-complete, and where exactly they stopped.
Watch items — the machine behaving oddly, the material batch running out of
spec, the temperature drifting. This is the section that matters.
Outstanding — work orders raised, parts on order, escalations open.
Quality — holds, deviations, anything awaiting disposition.
Write watch items concretely
"Line 3 infeed jamming roughly every 40 minutes since 14:00, cleared manually,
maintenance notified at 15:20" is a handover. "Line 3 playing up" is not.
Always state
What the next shift must do first, and anything with a time on it.
Never
Leave a verbal-only item, close a watch item because it stopped happening
without saying when, or hand over an open permit without naming its holder.