The OSHA standard for The Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout) (1910.147) for general industry outlines measures for controlling different types of hazardous energy. The Lockout Tagout standard establishes the employer's responsibility to protect workers from hazardous energy. Employers are also required to train each worker to ensure that they know, understand, and are able to follow the applicable provisions of the hazardous energy control procedures:
X hazardous energy control XXXXXXX is used to maintain worker safety by XXXXXXXXXX:
XXXX XXX XXXX XXXXXXXXX energy that should XX considered when XXXXXXXXXXX a control XX hazardous XXXXXX lockout / XXXXXX XXXXXXX? XXX electrical, XXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXX, XXXXXXX, gravitational, or other XXXXXX that can harm XXXXXX. XXXX XXXXXX sources XXX obvious, XXXX XX XXXXXXXXXXX, XXXX in a furnace, or something that XXXXX fall. XXXXXX may XX hidden hazards XXXX as air pressure in a system or a XXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX. Electrical XXXXXX is XXX most common form XX XXXXXX XXXX in workplaces. It XXX XX available XXXX through XXXXX lines or it XXX XXXX XX XXXXXX, for XXXXXXX, in XXXXXXXXX or XXXXXXXXXX. XXXXXXXXXXX can harm XXXXXX in one of three XXXX:
XXXXX there XXX be other methods out there that exist XX control hazardous energy XXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXXX viewed XX XXX XXXX reliable way to protect an individual XXXX hazardous energy because you are XXXXXXXX the XXXXXX to a XXXX energy XXXXX. XXXX a XXXXXX is in a zero energy state the XXXXXX XXX been eliminated; XXXX, XX XXXXXXXXX XXXXXX exists. XXXXXXX, in some cases, using XXXXXXX is XXX practical XXXXXXX of XXX XXXXXX on XXXXXXXXXX and various other XXXXXXXXX. Therefore, XXXXX XXXXXXXX can be implemented as XXXX XX adequate risk reduction XX XXX hazard XX obtained. XXXX XXXX of control XXXXX XXXXXXXXX a full XXX XX XXXXX XX determine XXX XXXXXXX XXX XXXXX XX each XXXX XXXXX XXXXXXXXX, and determining what XXXXXXXX XXX XX XXXX to minimize XXX XXXXXX XXXX XX an XXXXXXXX XXXXX. If an XXXXXXXX level XX risk cannot be achieved, XXXX XXXXXXX will be XXX XXXXXXX method XX control.