Category: Equipment and Machinery Safety

Lockout/Tagout: 5 Steps to a Successful Program

By jschleifer Jan 16, 2008 Enforcement and Inspection

Updated: Nov 21, 2014

To implement a successful lockout/tagout program, you need 5 key elements, says a top BLR interactive training program. It then proceeds to deliver them to you. Yesterday’s Safety Daily Advisor looked at what the safety education website, siri.uvm.edu, calls the “fatal 5” of lockout/tagout. These missteps, which account for most of the 60,000 injuries and […]

Meet Lockout/Tagout’s ‘Fatal 5’

By jschleifer Jan 15, 2008 Enforcement and Inspection

Updated: Nov 21, 2014

Make any of these 5 mistakes and not only is your lockout/tagout program in danger, so are you! Here’s a short quiz for the workers at your facility: Question: When can a simple padlock and a laminated piece of red-striped cardboard save your life?Answer: When they’re part of a well-planned lockout/tagout program. As safety professionals […]