23. Situation 3
You are auditing the process “Managing physical assets”.
You identify that a lock on a machine guard on machine number 2345, a 100 tonne press, is broken.
You see a red tag attached to it, which was raised by the operator 3 months ago. You talk to the operator, Bill Jones, and he says he has talked to the Maintenance Manager, Alex Ching, on several occasions to get them to try to fix the guard, but he stated that they are too busy to resolve. Bill states the guard is to prevent any access to the machine when it is operating and there are mechanical and electrical hazards.
The operator states that he has told his supervisor that the machine is not safe to operate but was told, because of production needs, the machine must run.
Based on the situation, which do you think would be the best statement of nonconformity for the finding (pick one)?