Digitized lockout tagout systems ensure every step is accurately completed. For example, a worker might forget to tag a locked-out machine, but with a digital system, this step cannot be skipped.

NFPA 70E provides a terse directive on employee involvement. It says, “Each person who could be exposed directly or indirectly to a source of electrical energy shall be involved in the lockout/tagout ...

Traditionally, lockout/tagout is treated as a one-off encounter each time. Even if six maintenance electricians have each performed lockout/tagout on the same machine several times, the “new guy” ...

The lockout/tagout (energy control) program must also include a documented employee training program and periodic inspections of the energy control procedures. The following sections provide a step-by ...

In today's need-it-now world, having instant access to information seems to have become a mandate. But how does it figure in to lockout/tagout? Thanks to safety compliance management software, vital ...

To improve overall employee safety across plants and facilities, switch from a tagout-based safety program to a lockout-tagout (LOTO) program.

Use the “Energized Equipment Lockout Tagout Procedure” form to document LOTO procedures for equipment/machines. Department supervisors shall ensure that employees under their supervision receive ...

The lockout / tagout standard, 29 CFR 1910.147, is arguably the best Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standard ever written. For the price of a lock and tag, an employee can be ...

The trade group asked its members to give examples in which safety control circuits, rather than lockout/tag-out, improve productivity.

Lockout / Tagout Program Purpose The purpose of this program is to ensure that all WMU employees are protected from unintended machine motion or unintended release of energy which could cause injury ...

Numerous OSHA violations for control of hazardous energy reveals increasing need for lockout/tagout procedures.