Lock, Tag, and Try
This color lock is the "First on, Last off" lock at the Sparks site.
What is a "Yellow Lock?"
This PPE is required to provide fall protection when working at unprotected height.
What is a "Body Harness"?
After successfully performing the initial line break or equipment opening, this may be downgraded.
What is "PPE"?
This role in a Confined Space Entry is a trained team member stationed outside an entry point who monitors and communicates with authorized entrants.
What is an "Attendant"?
This authorization is required for all non-routine tasks with potential hazard(s).
What is a "Safe Work Permit?"
This step in the isolation process is considered the most critical.
What is "Try"?
This is what a worker may experience after a fall from height and left in a suspended position, even for a short period of time.
What is "Suspension Trauma"?
This is the term for safe positioning of oneself to avoid potential harm, such as being in the line of fire, during initial line break.
What is "Defensive Position".
This is the hazard for being surrounded by fine solids or liquids within a confined space.
What is "engulfment"?
This is the process of two individuals assessing a task prior to performing work.
What is the "4-eye Review" or "4-eyes Principle"?
This may be used when multiple individuals need to service a piece of equipment.
What is a "Lock Box"?
Before beginning work at height this Plan must be in place to identify how a fallen suspended worker will be retrieved.
What is a "Rescue Plan"?
This must be filled out before cutting in to process lines, utility lines, or electrical conduit.
What is the "Line Cut Risk Assessment Form"?
Four members of this team must be available for a confined space entry to be authorized.
What is the "Confined space Rescue Team"?
These activities listed in the Authorization Log at the Sparks site do not require a Safe Work Permit, provided a hazard assessment (i.e. JSA) has been conducted and filed at the Guard House.
What are "Minor Activities"?
In the context of equipment isolation...Electric, pneumatic, hydraulic, thermal, and mechanical are considered forms of this.
What are "Hazardous Energy Sources"?
This is the height at which Fall protection must be implemented when working from a lower level in General Industry.
What is "four feet".
Prior to line cutting, these locations/points must be identified in the field (as numbered bright green tags) and listed in the lockout sheet table and corresponding diagram.
What are "Cut Points"?
This must be conducted as close to initial entry time as possible, conducted continuously throughout the entry, and documented on the permit every hour.
What is "Atmospheric Monitoring"?
This is the maximum number of shifts an issued Safe Work Permit is valid for.
What is "one shift"?
This form is what the Sparks site uses to create an equipment-specific lockout procedure.
What is the "Lock-Tag-Try Equipment Isolation Master Sheet" or "Lockout Sheet/Form"?
The anchorage point for a Personal Fall Arrest System must be capable of supporting this load (in lbs) per worker.
What is "5,000 lbs"?
In addition to the Line Cut Risk Assessment Form, this form must also be filled out prior to line cutting to verify the line has been properly isolated.
What is "Lock, Tag, and Try Equipment Isolation Master Sheet" or "Lockout Form".
In addition to annual Confined Space Rescue training, these two trainings must have been received by all members of the Confined Space Rescue Team, and at least one member of the Rescue Team must be current in them.
What are "First Aid" and "CPR"?
This person is responsible for ensuring the job site is cleaned up and returned to acceptable conditions prior to closing out a Safe Work Permit.
Who is the "Safe Work Permit Issuer"?