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Lockout Tagout Procedures

Ensure your employees are trained to repair and service the company's machinery or equipment.

Getting in contact with live circuits from sudden and unexpected startup of the machinery or equipment can cause serious injury. Equipment that has been shut down may inadvertently be restarted or re-energized by a co-worker, or may be controlled by automatic processors, timers or computers and restart automatically without warning.

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the failure to control hazardous energy sources has serious consequences:

  • 10% of serious industrial accidents

  • 28,000 lost workdays per year

  • Approximately 120 deaths per year

Fortunately, these hazards can be avoided through the use of lockout/tagout procedures, in which the employee performing the work places a lock and a tag at any point where the equipment can be turned on or where any stored energy can be released. Lockout/tagout procedures isolate energy and control machinery and equipment. Doing so helps protect the employees servicing the equipment, the equipment itself and any equipment operators and bystanders.

The Blueprints for Safety® Lockout/Tagout Program presents a simple, step-by-step approach to develop a program to provide employees with the training and tools they need to safely work on equipment and machinery that has been shut down.

The outcomes of your lockout/tagout program will be as follows:

  • To understand the energy hazards of equipment that is not locked and tagged

  • To know how to use lockout/tagout procedures to safely install and/or service equipment and machinery

Plan ahead. Learn the energy sources. Learn how to control them with lockout/tagout procedures and you can make equipment installation and maintenance a safe part of the workday.