General Information
Electrical, Chemical, Mechanical, Thermal, Stored
What are types of Hazardous Energy?
An employee who works in an area where lockout is performed but does not perform LOTO.
Who is an Affected Employee?
To prevent injury or death that can be caused by the unexpected release of energy.
What is the purpose of LOTO?
These devices are used when multiple people are working on the same machine.
What are multi-lock hasps or gang lockout box?
Only the person who put it on can remove it.
What is a lock?
Batteries, springs, capacitors are types of _______ energy.
What are types of Potential or Stored energy?
Any person who performs LOTO on equipment or machinery in order to do maintenance or servicing of that equipment.
Who is the Authorized Employee?
When the work requires an employee to place any part of his/her body into an area where a danger zone exists.
What is when LOTO is required?
The wrong equipment being locked out, verification not being completed, not locking system out every time.
What is the cause of many people being injured or killed each year?
What is a LOTO policy violation.
These will be conducted annually to ensure compliance, and understanding of system rules.
What are Periodic Inspections?
Voltage, current, static electrical potentials
What are electrical energy's?
The placement of a lock and warning tag on an energy isolating device to prevent the unexpected release of energy.
What is Lockout/Tagout (LOTO)?
LOTO devices ______ ____ be used for any purpose other than controlling hazardous energy.
What is shall not?
If you are removing these you will need to perform LOTO.
What are guards?
You can not do this until you verify the person who locked out the equipment is not at the facility and every reasonable effort has been made to contact the person.
What is remove the lock?
This establishes standards to ensure machines or equipment are stopped, isolated from potentially hazardous energy sources, and locked out before employees perform service or maintenance where unexpected energization or start-up of the machine, or release of stored energy could cause injury.
What is the LOTO program?
A device which blocks the movement of energy through a system. For example a water valve, air valve, gas valve, or electrical switch.
What is an energy isolating device?
The 6th and most important step of Lockout/Tagout.
What is Lockout verification?
The first step to proper LOTO.
What is - Prepare for shut down.
More than one person working under one LOTO or working under another person’s lock and tag.
What is NOT allowed by LOTO rules?
Who is responsible for understanding and complying with LOTO procedures?
What is anyone who could be exposed to potentially hazardous energy sources.
The area or work space where, if the hazardous energy was inadvertently released, the energy could potentially cause injury.
What is the Danger Zone?
ALL personnel exposed to potential danger zones shall apply their own.
What is Lock & Tag?
Doing this is like leaving the keys in your Bentley with the doors unlocked in Baltimore.
What is leaving your key in your lock?
How to lockout cord and plug style equipment.
What is maintain exclusive control of the plug.
(physically in the possession of the employee or in arm’s reach and in line of sight of the employee)