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Lockout tagout procedures outline steps to safely complete work on equipment, including issuing work orders, notifying employees, isolating energy sources, applying locks and tags, dissipating residual energy, verifying the absence of energy, and more. The general procedures ensure hazardous energy is controlled and isolated through specific steps before any work begins on machinery or equipment.

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General Procedures Poster V3

Lockout tagout procedures outline steps to safely complete work on equipment, including issuing work orders, notifying employees, isolating energy sources, applying locks and tags, dissipating residual energy, verifying the absence of energy, and more. The general procedures ensure hazardous energy is controlled and isolated through specific steps before any work begins on machinery or equipment.

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Lockout Tagout:

General Lockout Procedures


The following steps should be included in your Lockout Tagout
procedure in order to aid personnel in safe completion of work
activity.
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Issue a work order (or similar procedure), which determines the

task and the equipment that is to be locked down.


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Notify the affected employees that Lockout is about to occur,

including the operator of the equipment.


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Limit the work area, if permissible, by erecting a safety

perimeter.
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Prepare for shutdown by reviewing details of the energy source,

hazards, and your companys control procedures.


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Shut down the equipment/machinery using the normal, safety

procedure.
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Isolate all applicable energy sources.
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Apply padlocks to the energy isolating devices.
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Apply tags in order to provide information regarding the lockout

of isolation devices & switches.


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Dissipate, then confine and block the residual energy that may

be present.
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Apply padlocks to the residual energy blocking devices.
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Apply tags in order to provide information regarding the lockout

of the residual energy devices.


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Verify the absence of energy by using the most reliable and

safest means possible, e.g. start-up test.

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