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Servicing, maintaining, cleaning and repairing equipment are dangerous activities. A worker only has to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when the machine starts up, and injury or even death could result.
Making sure the machinery simply can’t start, or be started, is the obvious answer. The only way to be absolutely certain of that is to isolate it from all its energy sources. The only way to be absolutely certain of that is to use the safety procedure that’s becoming more and more popular, as well as being best practice in all European countries and law in some.
The procedure is known as Lockout/Tagout (LO/TO) and uses physical locks and informative tags to stop machine movement and accidental re-energising.
The most effective way to make LO/TO work is first of all to work out a proper programme. The global leader in LO/TO solutions – Brady – has broken this down into 6 simple elements.
With your LO/TO policy worked out, you need to put it into practice whenever an employee or a visiting worker such as a service engineer is working on a piece of equipment.
ERIKS is committed to Zero Accidents, whether on our own sites or on customers’ sites, and we implement LO/TO whenever and wherever appropriate.
Follow these steps, and that LO/TO padlock will turn into a key. The key to saving lives, to cutting costs by reducing lost employee time and insurance premiums, and to improving productivity by reducing accidents that cause equipment downtime.
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