Use this exercise to improve inspection skills and teach employees to recognize and prevent workplace hazards.
What’s Wrong with this Picture?: Lockout/Tagout - Labels Answers
1) One lock does not identify the user, and the name on the other is unreadable. Lockout devices and tagout devices must indicate the identity of the employee applying the device(s).
Related information:
- ez Explanations®: Lockout/tagout
- 1910.147(c)(5)(ii)(D)
2) The locks are different sizes, shapes, and colors. Lockout and tagout devices must be standardized within the facility in at least one of the following criteria:
- Color,
- Shape, or
- Size.
Related information:
- 1910.147(c)(5)(ii)(B)
- Letter of Interpretation: 08/30/2002 - Color is not the only prescribed factor for the standardization of LOTO devices
3) The lock without a label may have been taken from another source (such as a toolbox). Lockout and tagout devices must be singularly identified, must be the only device used for controlling energy, and must not be used for other purposes.
Related information:
- ez Explanations®: Lockout/tagout
- 1910.147(c)(5)(ii)
4) Whoever used the unlabeled lock needs retraining. Retraining must be conducted whenever a periodic inspection reveals, or whenever the employer has reason to believe, that there are deviations from or inadequacies in the employees knowledge or use of the energy control procedures. The retraining shall reestablish employee proficiency and introduce new or revised control methods and procedures, as necessary.
Related information:
- 1910.147(c)(7)(iii)(B)-(C)
- OSHA 3120 - Control Of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout)
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