Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

OIS sheet

English answer:

operating instruction sheet

Added to glossary by Rafael Mantovani
Jul 22, 2017 15:43
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English term

OIS sheet

English Tech/Engineering Safety
It refers to a series of sheets with safety procedures for industrial workers, I'm translating instructions on how to fill in the sheets correctly:

'OIS Sheet "How To" Procedures'
(...)
Leave 'Revision Date' blank unless this is a revision to an existing OIS sheet.
(...)
The 'Job Steps' column refers to the number assigned to each job step, and it is already complete for a single OIS sheet.'

I got all these results for the acronym on Wikipedia but none of them seem to make sense:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OIS


thanks a lot for any information.

Discussion

Darius Saczuk Jul 22, 2017:
My semi-educated guess Occupational and Industrial Safety

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operating instruction sheet

I realise that my proposal makes "sheet" redundant; I'll come to that in a moment.

I can't find any reference anywhere to an "occupational and industrial safety sheet", and if that were what it meant there would surely be an example somewhere. There are certain types of standard data safety sheets (SDS):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_data_sheet

But OIS quite often stands for operating instruction sheet:
http://www.acronymattic.com/Operation-Instruction-Sheet-(OIS...

And I think that's probably what it stands for here.

See the following Ford Motor Company document:

"Operator Instruction Sheets (O. I. S.)
OIS and JSAs will be maintained via a computer data base for operations within a zone and/or department. Employees and/or work groups will have access to these documents and may determine if, and/or where they desire to maintain them, as long as they are maintained in an orderly manner."
Note that they are associated with JSAs (Job Safety Analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_safety_analysis ).
In the same document "OIS sheet" is used, even though OIS has been defined as operating instruction sheet:
"Ensure complete and current OIS/JSA sheets are available for every job."
"This quality stop button procedure is not intended to include Delta items that are covered under processes which should be outlined in each operator’s OIS sheet."
"The following items will be included in this discussion:
1. The existing OIS/JSA sheet."
http://local249.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/2015-Local-Ag...

So we can see here that the redundancy "O(perating) I(nstruction) S(heet) sheet" does occur. I think people are so used to using the abbreviation that it doesn't strike them.

So are operating instruction sheets filled in? Apparently yes, at least to some extent; they are revised. And they are associated with safety:

"If necessary, review the safe operating instruction sheet prior to starting the task to remind everyone of the proper technique. [...]
Always review/revise the safe operating instruction sheet."
http://www.asse.org/assets/1/7/RandyDeVaulArticle.pdf?ref=ps

So I think this is probably what your document is referring to.
Peer comment(s):

agree Tony M : Makes sense, and especially with the issue of revisiing / updating.
57 mins
Thanks, Tony!
agree lorenab23 : Yes, just like the famous "ATM Machine" ;-)
4 hrs
True! Thanks a lot, Lorena :)
agree Herbmione Granger : Not as bad as 'ABS brake system' :)
17 hrs
That's a good one! Thanks :)
agree acetran
8 days
Thanks, acetran :)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks a lot. That makes sense, since JSA is an acronym that also appears a lot in my text. And as for the redundant "sheet", that's totally plausible, it's a rather poorly written text."
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