Practical resources built for food manufacturing engineering
The AFME Resource Library brings together practical templates, tools and working documents designed to support engineers across food and drink manufacturing. Here you will find resources covering maintenance and reliability, engineering audits, asset management, CAPEX and projects, health and safety, food safety and compliance, utilities and energy, automation and controls, engineering management, and people development.
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Practical engineering templates, audits, PM tools, maintenance regimes and management documents for food manufacturing.
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AFME-ELE-ISO-001 12 Steps to Safe Electrical Isolation Lockout, tagout
A practical knowledge sheet on safe electrical isolation for low-voltage work in UK food manufacturing. It explains the 12-step isolation sequence (lockout, tagout and proving dead), why each step matters, and the UK law and guidance behind it: the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989, HSE HSG85 and GS38, and BS 7671. Each step is illustrated with a picture, and it covers the traps specific to food factories: separate control supplies, UPS-backed controls, drive DC links and other stored energy.
AFME-EM-01 Engineering Statutory Compliance Calendar
One register of the statutory inspections, examinations and tests a food manufacturing site's engineering team must plan, with a 12-month planner. Missed statutory inspections are a legal, insurance and audit risk, and they are easy to lose track of when responsibilities are split between engineering, facilities, H&S and contractors. This register brings the common items for a UK food site into one place with typical frequencies, so you can assign owners and plan the year.
AFME-EM-02 Engineering Shift Handover Log
A structured handover between engineering shifts, so open isolations, temporary repairs, breakdowns and parts on order are never lost between shifts. Poor handovers are a common factor in incidents and repeated breakdowns: an isolation left in place, a temporary repair nobody knows about, or a part on order that the next shift chases again. A short, structured handover takes ten minutes and protects people, product and production.
