CHAPTER 8 – LOCKOUT AND TAG-OUT PROGRAM g.

Primary Authorized Employee – authorized

employee has been vested with responsibility
Hazardous energies are any form of energy: for a set number or group of employees
1. Electrical – voltage, current, static electrical performing service or maintenance on machines
potential, RF. or equipment subject to LOTO procedures.
2. Chemical – reaction, fire and explosion h. Other Workers – facility cleaners, janitors, etc.
3. Mechanical – shearing, rolling, crushing, i. Normal Production Operations – utilization of a
pinching machine or piece of equipment to perform its
4. Thermal – hotter than 140°F (60°C), colder than intended production function.
32°F (0°C) j. Servicing and/or Maintenance – workplace
5. Potential or stored energy – batteries, springs, activities such as constructing, installing, setting
capacitors up, adjusting, inspecting, modifying, and
6. Others – laser, ionizing and non-ionizing maintaining and/or servicing machines or
radiation, pneumatic, hydraulic, gravitational, equipment.
pressure
Lockout/Tag-out Program
Purpose of LOTO Program Includes:
To establish safe procedures for performing 1. Written procedures on all aspects of the
service or maintenance activities on machines or lackout/tag-out programs;
equipment to prevent unexpected energization, start-up 2.
or release of stored energy in order to prevent injury to
employees.
a. Lockout – placement of physical restraint on an
energy-isolating device, ensuring that the
equipment being controlled cannot be operated
or cannot release hazardous energy until the
lockout device is removed.
b. Tag-out – placement of warning or identification
tag-out device on an energy-isolating device, to
indicate that the equipment being controlled
may not be operated.
c. Energy Control Point – single point at which
hazardous energy flow can be effectively and
positively blocked so that it can no longer cause
injury or loss of resources.
d. Danger Zone – area or work space where, if the
hazardous energy was inadvertently released,
could potentially cause energy.
e. Affected Employee – an employee whose job
requires them to operate or use a machine or
piece of equipment on which servicing is being
performed under LOTO
f. Authorized Employee – person who
implements a LOTO system procedure on
machines or equipment to perform the
servicing or maintenance on that machine or
equipment.