shift-handover

# 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.