Lockout/Tagout for Authorized Employees

The awareness course teaches you to respect somebody else's lock. This one is for the employee who applies it. It covers what 1910.147 actually requires of an authorized employee: the scope of the standard and the exceptions people misuse; the written energy control procedure and when one is not required; the six-step application sequence, ending with the verification step that is most often skipped; release, testing while under lockout, and the narrow exception for removing another employee's device; group lockout and lockbox control; shift and personnel changes; contractors on your equipment; the annual periodic inspection and its certification; and when tagout may be used instead of lockout, which is less often than people assume. Your employer must still train you on their own written procedures and your specific machines, and must certify that training under 1910.147(c)(7)(iv). Issues a Migna certificate of completion.