Lockout/Tagout: • Prevents machinery or equipment from being turned on during servicing and maintenance • Prevents machine and equipment parts from moving, usually by using locking or blocking ...

Compliance with lockout/tagout standards prevents an estimated 120 fatalities and 50,000 injuries across the U.S. each year. Workers injured on the job from exposure to hazardous energy lose an ...

With lockout/tagout, you essentially tell other workers that a piece of equipment, in its current state, is too dangerous to operate. Tagout is the practice of leaving a label on a machine, warning ...

Employee involvement [120.2(A)]. This is first in the list of eight, and not by accident. One way lockout/tagout is sometimes done is one person in a crew performs the procedure, the other members of ...

At one time, lockout/tagout training was typically some minimal classroom instruction thing done to “check off the box,” and management in most companies was happy with this. The problem is that such ...

Lockout/tagout problems are consistently among the top five violations for regulatory agencies in the Americas. When a company’s employees need to perform maintenance, repairs or adjustments ...

S&C has introduced a new feature for hookstick-operated Omni-Rupter Switches in the vertical mounting configuration: an enhanced lockout/tagout handle.. The enhanced lockout/tagout handle, already ...