Lockout Procedure
A maintenance technician snapping a red safety padlock and danger tag onto the disconnect beside a hydraulic press

A lockout procedure for every machine. Posted this week.

List a machine's energy sources and get the placard your crew follows at the machine, plus the written procedure an inspector asks to see. Checked against OSHA 1910.147 before it prints.

Write my first procedureSee the machines

$19 a machine. No account, no subscription.

Write the procedure for your machine

List every source of energy that can move, power or hurt. The placard builds as you go, and the checks run on every change.

Who works on it

Energy sources

    Add a source

    One machine, three pages.

    What goes on the machine, what goes in the binder, and what you sign once a year.

    1. On the machine

      The placard

      The energy table with a colored code for every source, the isolation points with a box for a photo of each, the lockout steps in order and the return-to-service steps. Laminate it and zip-tie it to the guard.

    2. In the binder

      The written procedure

      Purpose, authorization, the steps to shut down, isolate, block and secure, placing and removing locks and tags (shift changes and group lockout included), testing and verification. The four parts 1910.147(c)(4)(ii) names.

    3. Once a year

      The inspection record

      What the inspector checks on this machine and a sign-off table for the periodic inspection that 1910.147(c)(6) requires at least once a year.

    Minutes per machine, not an afternoon in Word.

    Most plants start from a blank template and stall at machine five. Here you pick the machine, fix the sources to match yours, and the steps are written in the order the standard sets out.

    Every placard reads the same way
    Same codes, same order, on the press and on the compressor. A tech who has read one has read them all.
    Ready when the inspector asks
    A machine-specific procedure for each machine, and the yearly inspection sheet beside it, in one PDF per machine.
    Nothing missed at the machine
    The second source, the air still in the cylinder, the ram that drops: the checks ask for each one before the procedure is written.

    Start from your machine.

    39 machines with their usual energy sources filled in. Change anything to match yours.

    Checked before it prints.

    The checks are the parts of the standard people get wrong at the machine.

    A lockout station board with rows of red safety padlocks, danger tags and breaker lockouts

    The lockout station

    The devices the placards call for. One lock per person, a tag on every lock.

    • Master Lock 1457E410KA lockout tagout kitA personal kit for one authorized employee: padlocks, hasps, tags and electrical lockouts in a pouch.
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    • SAFBY safety padlocks, keyed differently, 10 packOne lock per person, numbered, each opened only by its own key.
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    • Master Lock 421 group lockout haspSix locks on one isolation point, for a crew working on the same machine.
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    • Electrical lockout kit with clamp-on breaker lockoutsBreaker lockouts that fit single and multi-pole breakers, with hasps and tags.
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    • TRADESAFE adjustable ball valve lockout, 2 packCloses over a ball valve handle from 1/2 to 4-1/4 in pipe, for air, water and gas lines.
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    • WUWEOT plug lockout for 110 and 220 V cords, 3 packEncloses the plug of a corded machine, a slicer or a saw, so it cannot go back in.
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    • TRADESAFE "Danger: Do not operate" tags, 30 packVinyl tags with ties, a line for the name, one on every lock.
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    • Master Lock 1482BP410 covered lockout stationThe wall board by the crib that keeps the locks, tags and devices where the next person finds them.
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