WATERVLIET ARSENAL, N.Y. (Oct. 29, 2014) --When rumors began flowing through the arsenal that it was getting new 'lockout and tagout' procedures, some may have thought the arsenal was having a ...

The work of servicing and maintaining a fleet of trucks presents a wide assortment of potential dangers to technicians, but the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s “lockout-tagout ...

Tagout is the practice of leaving a label on a machine, warning other employees that it should not be touched or activated. Lockout takes the extra step by providing a physical barrier that prevents ...

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 ...

Most affected employers understand their obligations to comply with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s control of hazardous energy (commonly called “lockout/tagout”) rules ...

Lockout PRO 3.0, the newest version of the company’s graphical procedure writing software, allows users to easily create and implement a complete OSHA 1910.0147-compliant hazardous energy control ...

Creating Efficient Lockout/Tagout Training That Adheres to NFPA 70E When it comes to LOTO training to follow the NFPA 70E standard, three types of employees need to be covered. By Darron Wright ...

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHA) first published its rules for control of hazardous energy (lockout/tagout) in 1989. However, those rules, as found in OSHA 1910.147, do not ...

Lockout/tagout is the no. 1 citation in general industry, and knowing whether a company's current policies ensure compliance could be a difficult task. Colin Warren, partner at Fisher Phillips, ...

Designed to guard against injuries and deaths that can occur when someone is working on equipment while someone else inadvertently turns it back on, OSHA’s lockout/tagout safety regulations are a ...

Employers subject to the federal Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) rules should take advantage of the opportunity to comment on planned revisions of the standards or face enormous potential costs down the line, ...