4 Basic Points for Understanding Lockout Tagout

In this fast paced modern life, we sometimes fail to think about our own safety. We tend to make mistakes by being careless at workplaces quite often. Lockout Tagout ensures employee safety during maintenance & servicing of equipment by controlling all energy flow, to and fro, from the equipment.

To achieve systematic Lockout, it is important to follow LOTO procedures and make sure everyone implements it religiously.

- Identify all Hazardous energy sources that could cause harm during maintenance of the equipment.

- Turn off, disconnect and isolate the equipment from all the hazardous energies.

- Lock it out with the prescribed lockout device and tag it mentioning all the necessary details like name, contact no. etc. to showcase the exact status of lockout.

- Due to the potential for human error, that occurs quite often - Before performing maintenance, always verify that the machine is at ZERO Energy state. Also check for the stored energies.