Smart Safety Pro Highlights Mobile-First Lockout Tagout Software Built for Procedure Clarity, Field Execution, and ...

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 ...

Year after year, lockout/tagout (LOTO) ranks among the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's top 10 most-cited violations, with nearly 3,000 LOTO citations last year, according to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

NIOSH is asking employers in food manufacturing to share best practices and challenges from their lockout/tagout programs. In a July 7 blog post, NIOSH officials note that many machine-related ...

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 found at 29 ...

In order to prevent the unexpected energizing or startup of machinery or equipment during servicing or maintenance, a lockout/tagout plan must be custom-tailored to each facility. The lockout/tagout ...

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” ...

As the gavel slams down, the CEO of the medium-sized pharmaceutical company looks down in disbelief. They lost the case before the Supreme Court and now they have the tough task of rebuilding morale ...

The purpose of this program is to ensure that all WMU employees are protected from unintended machine motion or unintended release of energy which could cause injury when they set up, adjust, repair, ...