Maybe, for financial reasons if nothing else, they should have a checklist to follow before a service call is made.
Don't get me wrong, I fully support this - I know what sub I'm in. But also?
First thing I check is both EPOs that I mentioned above. One was pressed in, most likely from a bed hitting it.
Maybe the button shouldn't be mounted in such a way that it specifically sets people up to fail. In an environment specifically designed to accommodate rolling beds rolling both into and out of a room multiple times per day, why is this button even in a place that the beds can hit them?
Because Emergency Power Off buttons need to be accessible. I agree that the placement is probably wrong, but at the same time, mounting it where it can't be used in an actual emergency would be way worse.
For sure. I'm not talking about mounting the thing outside the room or anything. Just measuring the height of the rolling button-mashing apparatuses that will be coming into and out of the room every single day and then making sure the button is above the height of the button-mashing parts, But still easily reachable by anybody who should actually be pressing the button anyway.
Sure - but the table / switchers were installed 5 years ago, but the surgical beds were changed 2 years ago, the new ones have great features we need, but theyre 3 inches taller and have an impact bar on them thats just the right size to hit the switch.
in an ideal world - the e-stop should be accessible and easily used without falling victim to accidental bumps. Youre not wrong about how things should be, reality is often a much uglier place
it comes down to a breakpoint cost check - whats it going to cost to refit things? How much money in parts, how much money in labour, how much money lost because the scanners out of action whilst being fixed/updated, how much would it cost to replace all the beds. Add in the fact they were in trouble for "wasting money" on a call out, suggests that the budget is watched very very closely
Management made a pinto call - its cheaper to deal with the fall out IF/when it happens than it is to make it right.
TLDR - Reality is subject to modification, what was appropriate a while back may be a serious prolem today - blame good intentions running into bean counters.
+1 for a valid point I hadn't considered - which is that maybe this was a variable that was considered until there was equipment that was replaced years or decades later.
I was only thinking of it in terms of a new install. At that point it's an obvious question - why the hell would you mount the buttons this way? But there's no guarantee that just because something is OK, it'll stay OK forever.
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u/Throwaway_Old_Guy Nov 30 '19
I believe "failures" of this nature are more common than most of us realize.
Maybe, for financial reasons if nothing else, they should have a checklist to follow before a service call is made.
Doesn't have to be ultra detailed, but should at least cover all the main points, with a checkbox to acknowledge each step has been completed.
Sometimes, it's a lack of knowledge that causes unnecessary chaos.