lockout-tagout
lock and tag

Lockout-Tagout Policy (often referred to as a program) 4.

Lockout-tagout is used across industries as a safe method of working on hazardous equipment and is mandated by law in some countries.

Disconnectors have provisions for a padlock so that inadvertent operation is not possible (lockout-tagout).

See Lockout-tagout.

If the machine guarding is optimally engineered and utilized, then lockout-tagout will only be needed in less frequent instances of installation/removal or major maintenance.

Lockout-tagout in the US, has 5 required components to be fully compliant with OSHA law.

These safety requirements can include Lockout-Tagout, confined space, foreign material exclusion (FME), electrical safety, and others.

Key principles covered are shock protection boundaries, arc flash energies, Lockout-Tagout, PPE (Personal Protective Equipment).

OSHA's standard on the Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout-Tagout), found in CFR 1910.147, spells out the steps employers must take to prevent accidents associated with hazardous energy.

When servicing or maintenance requires the operator or maintenance employee to place their body in harms way of the moving parts where unexpected restart or reenergization could cause injury or death, then a full system shutdown is required by utilizing a method called lockout-tagout.

Lockout-tagout (OSHA 1982b): 83 confined space incidents from 1974 to 1980 with 83 fatalities.This category covers conveyor belts and machinery on the factory floor etc. that are not generally considered confined spaces, but which satisfy the criteria for a confined space.

Lockout-tagout (LOTO) or lock and tag is a safety procedure which is used in industry and research settings to ensure that dangerous machines are properly shut off and not able to be started up again prior to the completion of maintenance or servicing work.

The tag must have an identification showing the name of the person doing the lock and tag.

Because tags cannot disable the operation of equipment, you should only use a system which combines locks and tags.

As the worker attempted to remove the lock and tag, the electrician returned and explained the situation to the worker.

Lock and tag procedures are now in place and are diligently enforced for the conveyor system in Ban Righ kitchen.

When equipment needs to be shut down, there is a "lock and tag" so that someone can't accidentally turn it on while someone is working on it.

A person's lock and tag must not be removed by anyone other than the individual who installed the lock and tag unless removal is accomplished under the direction of the employer.

It was discovered recently that the conveyor in Ban Righ kitchen can only be shut down fully by turning off the breaker switch and that no lock and tag procedures are in place for this piece of equipment.

Lockout-tagout (LOTO) or lock and tag is a safety procedure which is used in industry and research settings to ensure that dangerous machines are properly shut off and not able to be started up again prior to the completion of maintenance or servicing work.