This lathe inspection checklist makes inspecting your lathe machines easier and safer.

Lathes are important machines in many industries and workshops, enabling workers and lathe operators to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, drilling, facing and turning to create any object with symmetry about its axis.

Lathes are used form many different industries from pottery to construction, and are used across clay, wood, metal and more materials.

Even though lathes are obviously highly functional and useful pieces of equipment, the nature of them makes them inherently dangerous too, and good procedures around operating and maintaining your lathes is very important.

One of the standard tools which most companies and workplaces use when it comes to their lathe machines is the lathe machine inspection checklist.

The example lathe machine checklist template to the right is a good example of what this should and will look like and comes pre-built with sections for:

• High level lathe inspection instructions
• PPE required while operating the lathe
• Pre-operational, operational and ending operations checklist
• Potential hazards and injuries
• Digital signoff

Using this lathe machine inspection checklist at a regular cadence (weekly, monthly or whatever is agreed to) is a great way to ensure that your lathes are in good working order and that your operators are dealing with them, managing them and maintaining them properly.

You can use this template straight out of the box, or customise it to suit a specific inspection or specific type of lathe. Either way, it'll help streamline how you document and manage your lathe machines.