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July/August 2021-Occupational Health and Safety
Planning, preparation, and proper equipment are the keys to protecting workers in confined spaces from falling hazards. Making the workplace painless to engage in non-work activities is essential for healthy workers and a safer workplace. Heavy-duty industrial vacuum cleaners do...Read more -
LOTO-Occupational Health and Safety
Many companies face major challenges in implementing effective and compliant lockout/tagout programs—especially those related to lockouts. OSHA has special regulations to protect employees from accidental power-on or start-up of machinery and equipment. OSHA’s 1910.147 Standa...Read more -
What is Lockout/tagout?
What is Lockout/tagout? Lockout/tagout (LOTO) is a series of operations Lockout and tagout on the energy isolation device in order to protect the safety of operators when the dangerous parts of the machine and equipment need to be contacted in repair, maintenance, cleaning, debugging and other ac...Read more -
The shift’s Lockout tagout
The shift’s Lockout tagout If the work is not completed, the shift should be: face to face handover, confirm the safety of the next shift. Consequence of not executing Lockout tagout Failure to enforce the LOTO will result in disciplinary action by the company, the most serious being cont...Read more -
Lockout tagout policy tilt and corporate attention
Lockout tagout policy tilt and corporate attention In Qingdao Nestle Co., LTD., every employee has his or her own health ledger, and the company has pre-job instructions for the 58 employees in positions with occupational disease risks. “Although the risks of occupational diseases are almos...Read more -
LOTO Machine protection – Red, yellow and green labels
LOTO Machine protection – Red, yellow and green labels Red: 1. Stopped machine (not emergency stop) 2. Fully execute LOTO 3. Open the protective device 4. Perform job activities 5. Close the protective device, the operator in a safe position, remove the lock, reset and restart the machine. ...Read more -
Smart Lockout Tagout management system
Smart Lockout Tagout management system Adapt to the safety requirements of production enterprises China is a big manufacturing country, and the daily inspection and maintenance tasks of production enterprises are heavy. Lockout tagout is an important means to cut off energy and ensure the safety ...Read more -
Lockout tagout: Electrical equipment maintenance
Lockout tagout: Electrical equipment maintenance The only exception to this rule is an authorized person, and that is only if it is absolutely necessary due to equipment design or operational limitations, and then other work practices must be followed to protect that person, the bottom line is al...Read more -
Types of Loto Locks
There are quite a few factors that should be considered, including the size and complexity of your locking procedure, organizational needs, and specific application requirements-such as electrical or non-electrical. When choosing a safety padlock, managing the lockout/tagout procedu...Read more -
LOTO Lock out Tag out procedures
The West Haven campus of the Virginia Connecticut Health Care System is seen from West Spring Street on July 20, 2021. West HAVEN — A simple cast iron flange in an aging steam pipe in a veterans Affairs Medical Center building suddenly broke into four sections on November 13, 2020, releasin...Read more -
Develop an energy control plan
manufacturers must develop energy control plans and specific procedures for each machine. They recommend posting a step-by-step lockout/tagout procedure on the machine to make it visible to employees and OSHA inspectors. The lawyer said that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will ...Read more -
One of the most common OSHA violations
Still, one of the top 10 most frequently cited violations by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) in federal inspections is a failure to adequately train employees in LOTO procedures. To write effective LOTO programs, you need to understand the OSHA guidelines, as well as good...Read more