Lockout/Tagout
Who Needs It
OSHA requires that all facilities that use equipment on which cleaning, repairing, servicing, setting-up and adjusting will be performed must have written hazardous energy control procedures for locking out and tagging out equipment. Lockout and tagout rules affect everyone — even those worker who don’t actually service equipment. OSHA requires lockout and tagout because failure to lockout machinery before working on it is a major cause of serious injury and death in California
Lockout/Tagout is the disabling of equipment to control the release of potentially hazardous energy while maintenance or service activities are being performed.
Energy sources include, but are not limited to:
- electrical
- hydraulic
- mechanical
- compressed air
- thermal
- pressurized water
- gravitational
- hydraulic
- compressed air
- pressurized water
Required initially, before work is performed, whenever there is a change in process, procedure, or hazard and a refresher recommended every 1 – 3 years.
CDMS Training
The course covers the lockout/tagout program and procedures and how to use locking/tagging devices.
The session is approximately 1 hour in length.