Lockout Tagout Training

Lockout-Tagout

Lockout Tagout Training - Our 6-hour live online instructor-led electrical safety course is based on OSHA Reg. 29 CFR 1910.147 and CSA Z460 standards for energy control procedures, how and when to use them - and guidelines on safe restart.

Proper lockout tagout Lockout Tagout practices and procedures safeguard workers from hazardous energy releases is governed in the United States by the OSHA standard for The Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout Tagout) (29 CFR 1910.147) for general industry outlines measures for controlling different types of hazardous energy. The OSHA LOTO standard establishes the employer's responsibility to protect workers from hazardous energy. Employers are also required to train each worker to ensure that they know, understand, and are able to follow the applicable provisions of the hazardous energy control procedures.

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Lockout is defined by OSHA and CSA as "Control of Hazardous Energy - Lockout and Other Methods" as the "placement of a lockout device on an energy-isolating device in accordance with an established procedure." A lockout device is "a mechanical means of locking that uses an individually keyed lock to secure an energy-isolating device in a position that prevents energization of a machine, equipment, or a process."

OSHA lockout Tagout Training General requirements
Training must ensure that the purpose and function of your energy control plan are understood and that employees gain the needed knowledge and skills to safely apply, use, and remove hazardous energy controls.

Authorized Employees Must Be Able To Recognize:
Hazardous Energy Sources
Types And Magnitudes Of Energy In The Workplace
Methods And Means Necessary To Isolate And Control The Energy

Affected employees must be instructed on the:

Purpose And Use Of Your Energy Control Procedures

Other employees must be instructed about:

The Energy Control Procedure In General
Prohibitions Relating To Attempts To Restart/Reenergize Equipment

Lockout tagout standards provides for decision-making flexibility regarding hazardous energy control. "Other Methods", when used, are based upon risk assessment and application of the classic hazard control hierarchy.
Every workplace requires constant maintenance. Installation, repair, and servicing of equipment and machines, although routine, always holds an element of danger for personnel performing the tasks.

Injury can occur as a result of the inadvertent startup of machines, equipment or processes, contact with live circuits or an unexpected release of stored energy.

Avoid these hazards. Effective lockout procedures isolate energy and control machinery and equipment - helping to protect the operators, maintenance personnel and the machines themselves.

Our Lockout Tagout course guides you through appropriate lockout - energy control procedures, how and when to use them - and guidelines on safe restart.

Lockout Tagout For Authorized Employees
Employees who perform the following types of work must be trained:

Servicing or maintenance of machines or equipment where the unexpected start-up, activation or release of stored energy could cause injury.
Operations where an employee is required to remove or bypass a guard or other safety device.
Operations where an employee is required to place any part of his or her body into an area of the machine where work is actually performed upon the material being processed, or where a similar danger zone exists during the machine operating cycle.
Work on equipment where an energy source itself poses a hazard to the employee (e.g., electrical systems) that must be controlled for the work to be performed safely.
Entry into confined spaces, such as vats or tanks, where the supply lines for chemicals, gases or other materials into the space must be blocked and locked out to prevent the introduction of these materials into the space while employees are performing work.

If an employee's duties include performing work covered by this program, they must be trained as an authorized employee. The training for authorized employees involves both classroom and on-the-job instruction.
Training must be performed before the employee is assigned duties involving work that will require lockout/tagout (LOTO). An employee undergoing on-the-job instruction who has demonstrated the ability to perform duties safely at his or her level of training, and who is under the direct supervision of an authorized person, is considered to be an authorized person for the purpose of those duties.

Retraining will be performed whenever inspections conducted by the employee’s supervisor indicate that an employee has not retained the necessary knowledge or skills to effectively use established lockout/tagout procedures. Retraining will also be performed whenever there is a change in job assignments, when new machines, equipment or processes are introduced that present a new hazard, or when the energy control procedures change. When an employee is to work on new or unfamiliar systems or equipment, the employee’s supervisor must provide additional instruction on the hazards involved and the energy control procedures that are to be followed.

Training on Lockout Tagout Devices
If tagout devices are used, further instruction on tagout systems need to emphasize that:

Tags are warning devices only and do not provide a physical restraint that lockout devices provide
Tags must not be removed without the authorized employee’s approval and should never be bypassed, ignored, or otherwise defeated
Tags must be legible and understandable by all employees
Tags must be able to withstand environmental conditions in the workplace
Tags may give employees a false sense of security
Tags must be securely attached to prevent inadvertent or accidental detachment

Full-Day Lockout Tagout Training Course Outline

Introduction to Lockout: