The work of servicing and maintaining a fleet of trucks presents a wide assortment of potential dangers to technicians, but the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s “lockout-tagout ...

Lockout tagout compliance continues to appear on OSHA's Top 10 Cited Standards list year after year.

• Verify Lockout/Tagout locks and tags are removed before attempting to use the equipment • Follow manufacturer instructions for startup.

Lockout/tagout provisions for the equipment had not been implemented prior to the employee entering the area. In addition, two repeat violations at the same facility from 2009 included failing to ...

In this video (Episode 15), Randy Barnett discusses the importance, background information, and steps necessary for electrical LOTO.

Part 2 of our three-part series about lockout/tagout compliance examines the challenge of shift changes to safety. (Read part 1 here) ...

Lockout/Tagout is the OSHA standard for the control of hazardous energy. It addresses the practices and procedures necessary to disable machinery or equipment, thereby preventing the release of ...

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

The hazardous energy control rules require such individualized plans, and general instructions on lockout/tagout procedures will not satisfy this requirement.

Only authorized employees can perform a lockout/tagout on machines and equipment. There are three categories of employees associated with the lockout/tagout program.

The zero-risk blanket approach is outdated, he adds, and is in conflict with current safety management practice. “Lockout, in its essence, is a procedural or administration step in the hierarchy of ...

Lockout tagout compliance continues to appear on OSHA’s Top 10 Cited Standards list year after year.