ABSTRACT
According to BS EN 13306:2010, maintenance concerns the combination of all technical, administrative, and managerial actions during the life cycle of an item, intended to retain it in, or restore it to, a state in which it can perform the required function. The conclusion from the definition presented is the following: maintenance is not only purely technical tasks, such as disassembly and replacement of spare parts, lubrication, and repair. In practice, maintenance has a much wider spectrum
1 INTRODUCTION
Sustainability is becoming a significant component of operational and competitive strategies in an increasing number of companies. The idea combines economic, environmental, and social aspects of activity of an organization. Social sustainability is implemented in concepts such as preventive occupational health and safety, human-centred design of work, empowerment, individual and collective learning, employee participation, and work-life balance. All these concepts aim to preserve or build up human capital, and they represent a conscious way to deal with human resources. This contemporary approach to running business caused changes in the way the functioning of basic processes and, more importantly, because of it support processes are perceived with some reference to production equipment maintenance.
