Step 2: Minor maintenance

Minor maintenance includes minor repairing damages requiring no design input to decide the treatment or rectify the defects. Such minor damages include rectification and replacement of bridge expansion joints, railing posts etc. Routine bridge inspection collects / records such minor damages during inspection. Divisions shall update the BMS with the information collected through superficial and routine inspection annually. The BMS generates the priority list for minor maintenance, which shall be the basis for annual programming and budgeting for minor maintenance through the Annual Road Maintenance Plan. Maintenance works shall be carried by contract using contractors in accordance with prevailing acts and rules and supervised by the Project Management Team at the Division, refer ▬►Program Appraisal Document BIMP Table 3.3: Maintenance Classification and Definitions, Page 40, see an example of ARMP .