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Improved machine design helps to improve lock/tag security rule management
Industrial workplaces are governed by OSHA rules, but this isn’t to say that rules are always followed. While injuries happen on production floors for a variety of reasons, of the top 10 OSHA rules that are most often ignored in industrial settings, two directly involve machine design: lock...Read more -
Periodic LOTO Inspections
Periodic LOTO Inspections A LOTO inspection can only be conducted by a safety supervisor or authorized employee who is NOT involved in the lock out tag out procedure being inspected. To conduct a LOTO inspection, the safety supervisor or authorized employee must do the following: Identify the equ...Read more -
What to Do if An Employee is Not Available to Remove the Lock?
What to Do if An Employee is Not Available to Remove the Lock? The safety supervisor can remove the lock, provided that: they have verified that the employee is not in the facility they have received specific training on how to remove the device the specific removal procedure for the device is d...Read more -
What is a LOTO Box?
What is a LOTO Box? Also known as a lockbox or a group lockout box, a LOTO box is used when equipment has several isolation points that need to be secured (with their own energy isolating, lockout, and tagout devices) before it can be locked out. This is referred to as a group lockout or a group...Read more -
LOTO Lockout/ Tagout regulations in the United States
LOTO Lockout/ Tagout regulations in the United States OSHA is the 1970 American Occupational Safety and Health Administration Administration and occupational Safety and health Administration regulation. Control of Dangerous Energy -Lockout Tagout 1910.147 is a part of OSHA. Specific, operational...Read more -
LOTO Employee Skill Card
LOTO Employee Skill Card While it takes only a minute to reach the machine and remove the blockage or remove the protection and replace parts, it takes only a second to cause serious injury if the machine is accidentally started. Obviously machines need to be protected with Lockout tagout procedu...Read more -
Group lockout
Group lockout When two or more people are working on the same or different parts of a larger overall system, there must be multiple holes to lock the device. To expand the number of available holes, the lockout device is secured with a folding scissors clamp that has many pairs of padlock holes c...Read more -
LOTO Key Steps 2
Step 4: Use the Lockout Tagout device Use only approved locks and tags Each person has only one lock and one tag at each power point Verify that the energy isolation device is maintained in the “locked” position and in the “safe” or “off” position Never borrow ...Read more -
LOTO Key Steps 1
LOTO key steps The first step: Prepare to shut down equipment Area: clear obstacles and post warning signs Yourself: Are you physically & mentally ready? Your team mate mechanical Step 2: Turn off the device Authorized person: must disconnect power or shut down machinery, equipment, processes...Read more -
What is the difference between lockout and tagout?
What is the difference between lockout and tagout? While often intermingled, the terms “lockout” and “tagout” are not interchangeable. Lockout Lockout occurs when an energy source (electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, chemical, thermal or other) is physically isolated from the system tha...Read more -
Conduct on-site lockout Tagout training activities
Conduct on-site lockout Tagout training activities In order to improve the safety awareness of employees, improve their operation skills, and ensure that on-site employees quickly master the application of lockout tagout tools, lockout tagout training activities are carried out for well team cadr...Read more -
Brief history of LOTO
Brief history of LOTO The OSHA lockout tagout standard for the Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout), Title 29 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 1910.147, was developed in 1982 by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to help protect workers who routi...Read more