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only. Please refer to your
company’s specific safety
policies and procedures.
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LOCKOUT/TAGOUT

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Scope
♦ Exceptions:
– Construction, agriculture, maritime
– Electric utilities
– Electric utilization installations (Subpart S)
– Oil & gas well drilling & servicing

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Application
♦ Control of Energy
♦ Normal production operations not
covered unless . . .
– Remove or bypass a guard or safety device
– Part of body is in point of operation
Must Provide Alternative Protection

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Purpose
♦ Requires Employers To:
– Establish a program
– Utilize procedures

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Definitions
Employees
– Authorized
• Person who uses lockout/tagout
Affected
• Person who operates or uses machine where
lockout/tagout is being performed or
• Works in area
Other
• All “other” employees

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Definitions
♦ Energized
– Connected to energy source
– Contains residual or
stored energy
♦ Energy Source
– Electrical, mechanical, hydraulic,
pneumatic, chemical, thermal, or other
energy

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Energy Control Procedures
♦ Purpose of procedure
♦ Procedural steps for shutting down,
isolating, blocking an securing
♦ Procedural steps for placement, removal
and transfer of lockout/tagout devices
– Who’s responsible?
♦ Requirements for verification

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Materials and Hardware
♦ Provided by Employer
– Locks, tags, chains, wedges, key blocks, adapter
pins, self-locking fasteners etc.
♦ Not used for any other
purpose
♦ Durable
♦ Standardized
– Color shape or size
♦ Substantial
♦ Identifiable
– Employee
– Tagout – warning such as Do Not Start

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Training
♦ Must ensure purpose
and function of
program are
understood by
employee
♦ Must ensure the
knowledge and skills
required for safe
application, usage,
and removal of
energy controls are
acquired by
employee

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Authorized
1. Recognition of
hazardous energy
sources
2. Type and magnitude
of energy available
3. Methods and means
for energy isolation
& control
4. Limitations of tags
Affected
1. Purpose & use of energy
control procedure
2. Limitations of tags
Other
1. Knowledge of procedure
2. Prohibited to restart or
reenergize
3. Limitations of tags
Training

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Application of Energy Control
♦ Preparation for shutdown
♦ Machine or equipment shutdown
♦ Machine or equipment isolation
♦ Apply lockout/tagout devices
♦ Stored energy
♦ Verification

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Release from Lockout/Tagout
♦ Check machine
♦ Notify employees (check area for
employees)
♦ Removed by person who applied device
– Removal by person other than one who applied
device

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Outside Contractors
♦ Inform each other of respective
lockout/tagout procedures
♦ On-site employer ensure employees
understand and comply with restrictions and
prohibitions of outside employer’s energy
control program

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Group Lockout/Tagout
♦ Every authorized employee working on
equipment
– One person – one lock
– Each person remove only
his/her lock when done
working
♦ Responsibility given to
one authorized employee to coordinate

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Shift Changes
♦ Specific procedures must be utilized
– Ensure continuity of lockout/tagout
– Provisions for orderly transfer of lockout/tagout
devices

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