shift-handover

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.