NFPA 70E provides a terse directive on employee involvement. It says, “Each person who could be exposed directly or indirectly to a source of electrical energy shall be involved in the lockout/tagout ...

Traditionally, lockout/tagout is treated as a one-off encounter each time. Even if six maintenance electricians have each performed lockout/tagout on the same machine several times, the “new guy” ...

Designed to help plant managers conveniently address lockout/tagout requirements for various equipment and tasks, a comprehensive Plant Facility Lockout/Tagout Kit keeps all necessary devices in one ...

In order to prevent the unexpected energizing or startup of machinery or equipment during servicing or maintenance, a lockout/tagout plan must be custom-tailored to each facility. The lockout/tagout ...

When it comes to LOTO training to follow the NFPA 70E standard, three types of employees need to be covered. Electricians, machine operators, and laborers are among the 3 million workers who service ...

We often take electricity for granted. We don’t think about it when it is working fine and all our tools, equipment, and appliances are running smoothly. But when we lose electricity, many operations ...

The purpose of this program is to ensure that all WMU employees are protected from unintended machine motion or unintended release of energy which could cause injury when they set up, adjust, repair, ...

Most, if not all, of lockout/tagout incidents are preventable with proper compliance with OSHA's regulations, right? Wrong! It takes more than having a program in place that is compliant with OSHA's ...