A machine register that survives an OSHA inspection
Every registered workplace in Tanzania must satisfy an annual OSHA plant and machinery inspection to keep its Certificate of Compliance. Trakora keeps a live machine register — each machine, its running hours, downtime with a reason, and who operated it — so the plant list and history an inspector asks for is already in one place.
Machine register for OSHA at a glance
- Built for
- Registered factories, plants and workshops
- Regulatory context
- OSHA — OSH Act 2003
- Lead alert
- unplanned_downtime
- What it keeps
- Machine register, running hours, downtime, operator history
- UI surface
- /m/industrial · machines · downtime
- The certificate
- OSHA issues it — Trakora holds the evidence
- WIMS course fee (external)
- TZS 450,000† OSHA/WIMS, not a Trakora price
- Per-plant price
- —† scoped per deployment
The inspection is annual. The evidence should be continuous.
Under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2003, a workplace must be registered with OSHA before it begins operating (s.16(2)), and it renews a Certificate of Compliance each year after inspection. The paperwork problem is familiar: the plant list lives in one file, service dates in another, and the record of who ran which machine does not exist at all. A live register turns inspection week from an archaeology exercise into an export.
Register the workplace
OSHA registration is a precondition to operating under s.16(2), handled through the WIMS portal. Trakora does not do this for you — it keeps the machine and plant list you will be asked about accurate from day one.
Keep the record live
Every machine carries its running hours, its downtime with a reason, and its operator history. Maintenance and inspection dates sit against the same record, so nothing is reconstructed from memory later.
Produce it in one place
When the inspection comes, the plant list, the pressure vessels and lifting appliances, their dates and their history are already together — one register to present, not a scramble across spreadsheets.
What an OSHA inspection can cover
- General workplace safety — housekeeping, guarding, welfare facilities
- Plant and mechanical — the machines on your register
- Electrical safety — installations and protection
- Pressure vessels — boilers, compressors, receivers
- Lifting appliances — cranes, hoists, forklifts
- Industrial hygiene — noise, dust, chemical exposure
- Ergonomics — workstation and task design
- Construction safety — where site works apply
- Medical examinations — worker health testing
Inspection scope is defined by OSHA, not by Trakora. The register supports the plant, pressure-vessel and lifting-appliance lines above by keeping the equipment list and its dates current.
A register and a record — not a control system
The real features of the industrial module, pointed at the inspection you cannot skip.
Machine register
One list of every machine — make, location, pressure vessels and lifting gear included — with its dates against it. The plant list an inspector opens with.
/ machinesDowntime with a reason
When a machine stops, the unplanned_downtime rule records that it stopped and why — so a stoppage is a logged event, not an unexplained gap.
/ unplanned_downtimeOperator history
Who ran which machine, per shift. Accountability the paperwork rarely has — and a record you can stand behind when a question is asked after the fact.
/ operator-historyMaintenance schedule
Service and inspection dates held against each machine, so a certificate that is coming due is visible before it lapses rather than after.
/ maintenance-scheduleDowntime reasons over time
The same downtime records, read as a trend, show which machine and which reason cost you the most hours — the input to a preventive-maintenance case.
/ downtimeSits alongside the plant register
The same equipment can be tracked as an asset, so plant that moves between sites keeps one identity across the machine register and asset tracking.
/ industrial + assetsHonest limits
A register helps you prepare for a statutory process. Being clear about the line between the two is the point.
What this cannot do
- Trakora is not OSHA and does not issue, guarantee or accelerate a Certificate of Compliance. The statutory inspection is carried out by OSHA; the register is preparation, not approval.
- It does not replace the WIMS registration process or the worker health testing and first-aid training OSHA requires. It keeps the equipment record those steps refer to.
- Environmental audits and EIAs under NEMC are a separate regime; this page does not address them and does not claim to.
- Whether any Trakora hardware requires a TBS or other equipment approval is not asserted here — confirm equipment-approval requirements with the relevant authority.
- The register reflects what you enter and what connected machines report. A machine left off the list, or a stoppage never given a reason, is a gap the software cannot invent its way around.
TZS 450,000 is a course fee published by OSHA via the WIMS portal — it is quoted here as public context, not a Trakora charge. Figures shown as — are to be confirmed: no per-plant price is published on this page, because it is scoped per deployment in TZS with a VAT invoice. No number here is invented.
Frequently asked questions
What does OSHA Tanzania require of a factory?
Under the OSH Act 2003, a workplace must be registered with OSHA before it starts operating (s.16(2)), and it renews an annual Certificate of Compliance after inspection. Registration runs through the WIMS portal.
Does Trakora issue an OSHA certificate?
No. OSHA issues the Certificate of Compliance after its own inspection. Trakora keeps the machine register, downtime records and operator history that support your inspection — it prepares the evidence, it does not grant the certificate.
What inspections does OSHA carry out?
OSHA's inspection scope can include general workplace safety, plant and mechanical, electrical safety, pressure vessels, lifting appliances, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, construction safety and medical examinations. The machine register directly supports the plant, pressure-vessel and lifting-appliance lines.
How does a machine register help at inspection?
It puts the plant list, running hours, downtime reasons, operator history and service dates in one place. Instead of reconstructing the record across spreadsheets during inspection week, you produce a register that has been kept current all year.
How much does an OSHA compliance course cost?
OSHA publishes course pricing through the WIMS portal at TZS 450,000. That is an OSHA/WIMS figure quoted here as context — it is not a Trakora charge, and Trakora does not run the course.
How much does Trakora cost for a plant?
Industrial monitoring is scoped per deployment in TZS with a VAT invoice — the figure depends on your plant, the number of machines and how they connect. Talk to sales for a quote against your operation.
More on industrial monitoring
Walk into your next inspection with the register ready
Tell us about your plant and the machines on it, and we will scope a machine register, downtime and operator-history deployment — in TZS with a VAT invoice and Swahili support.