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Lockout/Tagout Procedures—Keep it Simple, Keep it Safe Employing these techniques can be the difference between a safe, routine maintenance activity and a serious injury. By Tom Burgess, Justin ...
The work of servicing and maintaining a fleet of trucks presents a wide assortment of potential dangers to technicians, but the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s “lockout-tagout ...
1. Lockout-tagout programs use safety padlocks, group lock boxes, and other safety devices to ensure equipment is de-energized properly and remains out of service for the duration of maintenance.
Lockout/Tagout Can Save Lives As safety professionals, we need to always consider the electrical issue as it relates to lockout/tagout. By Jeff Buckau Aug 02, 2021 In the safety world, one tends ...
April 21, 2011; “Lockout/Tagout Mistakes Lead to Injury, Death,” May 19, 2011). But even when a company has LO/TO programs in place, workers may skip LO/TO procedures that seem too burdensome ...
Purdue University Control of Hazardous Energy Program (Lockout/Tagout) Lockout/Tagout tutorial from OSHA The OSHA rule at 29 CFR 1910.147 Equipment Safety Aerial Work Platforms Confined Space Control ...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standard for The Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout), Title 29 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 1910.147, addresses the ...
Lockout/tagout provisions for the equipment had not been implemented prior to the employee entering the area. In addition, two repeat violations at the same facility from 2009 included failing to ...
According to OSHA, the common sense lockout/tagout procedures should be followed whenever repairing a machine’s circuits, cleaning/oiling machinery, clearing jammed mechanisms, rebuilding equipment, ...
Workers who perform lockout/tagout require training as authorized employees under the standard. However, an authorized employee cannot verify that an electrical circuit is de-energized. Doing so ...
What you need to know about Lockout/Tagout By Rob Cunningham, ANAD Safety Office May 28, 2020 ...
Lockout PRO 3.0, the newest version of the company’s graphical procedure writing software, allows users to easily create and implement a complete OSHA 1910.0147-compliant hazardous energy control ...