Counting bay hours means counting gate defects, not only the planned sheet

A planned inspection sheet can look fully booked and still leave two bays empty at 10:00 because a vehicle did not arrive from the yard. By 14:00 those bays are full of gate defects that never appeared on the planner.

A bay load review is a count of job cards against hours, plus a day of watching which work actually occupies the lift. It is not a scorecard for individual fitters. If you want that, you need a different conversation with your own management.

Ibrahim Khan’s West Yorkshire workshop took a two-page note to a Friday meeting. Planned work had occupied less than half the booked hours in the observed week. School-run peaks and holiday cover would have looked different; we wrote that on the same page so nobody treated one week as the year.