MILWAUKEE, Sept. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Last year, citations due to noncompliance of the 1910.147 Lockout/Tagout standard ranked among OSHA's top 10 most cited violations*. With experts anticipating ...
To improve overall employee safety across plants and facilities, leaders at Southern Company Generation decided to switch from a tagout-based safety program to a lockout-tagout (LOTO) program. After ...
OSHA has specific regulations for protecting employees from the unexpected energization or startup of machinery and equipment. Commonly referred to as the “Lockout/Tagout standard,” guidelines for the ...
Each year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) releases a list of the top 10 most-cited safety violations, with lockout/tagout (also known as LOTO) ranking year after year, along ...
Failing to follow lockout/tagout rules can get you in trouble with OSHA, but it can also be fatal. When OSHA compliance officers inspect a facility, they examine its lockout/tagout program, and last ...
[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] The work of servicing and maintaining a fleet of trucks presents a wide assortment of potential dangers to technicians, but the ...
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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” ...