GENERAL
Work performed on an electrical system within reaching distance of energized components.
What is Energized Work?
A tool to help workers identify safety hazards they encounter at work.
What is the Energy Wheel or Hazard Identification Tool?
The most effective way to remove a hazard.
What is Elimination?
Bright in color, usually red, to increase visibility to allow workers to readily see if a device is isolated.
What are tags?
PPE
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
A safety procedure used to ensure dangerous equipment is properly shut off and not able to be started again prior to completion of maintenance or repair work.
What is Lockout-Tagout?
A condition or action that has the potential to result in harm or injury to people, property, or the environment.
What is a hazard?
Substitution as a hazard control.
What is using a safer alternative to the source of the hazard?
A person who locks out or tags out machines or equipment in order to perform servicing or maintenance.
What is an Authorized employee?
MAD
What is Minimum Approach Distance?
The most common OSHA Electrical violation.
What is Lockout-Tagout - LOTO?
Gravity, Motion, Mechanical, Electrical, Pressure, Sound, Radiation, Biological, Chemical, Temperature
What are hazard types or energy sources?
Establishing work practices that reduce the duration, frequency or intensity of exposure to the hazards.
What is Administrative Controls?
Electrical, Mechanical, Thermal, Chemical, Hydraulic, and Pneumatic
What are sources of hazardous energy?
LOTO
What is Lockout-Tagout?
An area of equal potential to protect workers on electrical equipment from electric shock.
What is Equipotential Zone or EPZ?
The most common type of energy source usually seen immediately while on the job.
What is Motion?
Isolating people from the hazard.
What are Engineering Controls?
Electrocution, Burns,
Crushing, Cutting, Lacerating, Amputating, or Fracturing body parts
What are the most common injuries that occur from failing to control hazardous energy?
ZOP
What is Zone of Protection?
A designated area, whose boundary is marked by required tagged isolation points and grounds, in which workers can perform work safely from unintentional equipment start-up or energy release from outside the zone.
What is Zone of Protection or ZOP?
The biological hazard that unexpectedly spread across the US in 2020.
What is COVID-19 or Coronavirus
The last line of defense in the event of an arc flash or fire.
What is ARC Rated PPE or Flame Resistant (FR) Clothing?
Preparation, Shut Down, Isolation, Lockout, Check, Verification
What is the LOTO Procedure or Process?
EPZ
Equipotential Zone