Lockout tagout devices are essential for controlling hazardous energy during machine and equipment maintenance or servicing. These devices are applied to energy-isolating devices—such as disconnect ...

Incorporating a Transfer Lock System into Your Lockout Program Many companies face significant challenges in achieving an effective and compliant lockout/tagout program in place—especially as it ...

Communicate with other divisions where a lockout would impact the use of shared equipment or machinery Ensure that a lockout does not continue for an unreasonable period of time without action being ...

Each such energy-isolating device should be clearly identified by a label. Only where such devices are not now existent may tagout be used. Whenever the equipment or machinery is modified or rebuilt, ...

When to use tagout (TO) instead of lockout depends on the type of energy-isolating device involved and whether it is capable of being locked out. According to OSHA’s Control of Hazardous Energy ...

In March 2002 a California welder was asked by his supervisor to remove a jammed piece of metal from the hydraulic door of a scrap metal shredder. As he'd done several times before, the man grabbed ...