Lockout-tagout is the #1 cited violation for general industry by OSHA, but they estimate the lockout-tagout standard prevents 120 fatalities and 50,000 injuries annually. LO/TO is being adopted industry-wide and on a global scale as a best practice for increasing facility safety.
Locking out machinery that is defective or dangerous due to a malfunction, in a factory or manufacturing facility, is the smartest thing you can do before you perform any kind of maintenance or repair on it. A good tip here would be to have the tel. number of your local reliable emergency locksmith services.
The lockout-tagout tags and locks inform people that the machinery in this vicinity needs to be locked out for safety reasons. It also allows various safety personnel and maintenance workers to leave things locked down until they have finished their work on the machine or have inspected it and found it to be repaired to safe standards.
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