To improve overall employee safety across plants and facilities, leaders at Southern Company Generation decided to switch from a tagout-based safety program to a lockout-tagout (LOTO) program. After ...

In the electrical industry, you have probably heard the phrase “we don’t work energized.” But is this statement accurate? The answer is almost always no, due to a common misunderstanding of what ...

Good engineering and advancing technology continue to make construction equipment safer for those who work in and around it. Sometimes, however, the smartest way to prevent an equipment-related ...

The revised LO/TO standard addresses the use of key-controlled locks and identifying tags that are used to shut down and lockout sources of hazardous energy that could otherwise result in personal ...

It is the policy of Michigan Technological University that all equipment be locked out during servicing and/or maintenance work to protect against accidental or inadvertent activation which could ...

In its simplest (and perhaps least effective) form, lockout/tagout (LOTO) consists of three steps: Identify the breaker (or fuse) that supplies power to your equipment. Open the breaker. Hang your ...