Procedures, devices, and personnel must be set in place to prevent a serious injury when a worker thinks a machine is safely off. Do you need a lockout/tagout program at your company? In 2013, a ...

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 ...

ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala. -- No excuse can undo an accident. We all know what's done is done. There is always a cause and effect in life, no matter how much we wish otherwise. Sometimes, we make ...

What is the OSHA standard for control of hazardous energy sources? The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standard for The Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout), Title 29 Code ...

Thanks to safety compliance management software, vital workplace safety information immediately is accessible on mobile devices. Safety compliance software helps provide consistent and timely ...

Year after year, the federal Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) standard, 29 C.F.R. § 1910.147, is one of the top 10 most frequently cited OSHA standards. In addition to preventing injuries in the workplace, this ...

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” ...

Good engineering and advancing technology continue to make construction equipment safer for those who work in and around it. Sometimes, however, the smartest way to prevent an equipment-related ...

Sure, you’ve done it a thousand times. You’ve got the whole lockout/tagout thing down, so why bother reading the procedure or the work order notes? Rather than waste time going through all that, you ...

OSHA’s 1910.147 standard covering Lockout/Tagout is straightforward, but there’s often confusion about the details. Lanny Berke explains the sections that most often lead to missteps. Many of the ...

Industry trade groups have weighed in — both pro and con — on whether the Occupational Safety and Health Administration should update its 30-year-old lockout/tag-out rules. The proposed change ...