The decision was final, and the plan was to construct a new addition to help keep up with market demand. The senior leadership decided that moving the factory and building another factory was cost ...

Replace paper LOTO permits with ToolkitX’s digital lockout tagout system. Guided workflows, live dashboards, and tamper proof audit trails all in one platform. An Industry Problem That Paper Cannot ...

Procedures, devices, and personnel must be set in place to prevent a serious injury when a worker thinks a machine is safely off. Do you need a lockout/tagout program at your company? In 2013, a ...

Most, if not all, of lockout/tagout incidents are preventable with proper compliance with OSHA's regulations, right? Wrong! It takes more than having a program in place that is compliant with OSHA's ...

Despite preventing an estimated 120 fatalities and 50,000 injuries each year, lockout/tagout (LOTO) procedures are one of the most-cited OSHA violations each year, according to EHS Today. In 2019, the ...

In part 1 of a three-part series about lockout/tagout compliance, the author examines the importance of lockout/tagout and the components of an effective program. It was just like any other day when ...

A big drawback to lockout/tagout is the time required to identify all of the energy sources for a given job. And such identification is sometimes incomplete, decreasing safety. But it doesn't have to ...