Lockout Procedure

Lockout Procedure / Forklifts, trucks and lifts

Wheel loader or excavator lockout procedure

A wheel loader or excavator holds electrical, hydraulic, gravity and mechanical energy. Here is where it hurts people, and the procedure for yours: the placard for the machine and the written procedure for the binder.

E1H1G1M14 energy sources on a typical wheel loader or excavator

Where a wheel loader or excavator hurts people

  • Lower the bucket to the ground and cycle the controls with the key on and the engine off to bleed pressure, per the manual.
  • Install the articulation lock before you work in the pinch point.

Write the procedure for your wheel loader or excavator

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

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    Other vehicles machines

    Every machine · What makes a procedure machine-specific

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

    For the wheel loader or excavator's lockout station

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

    • SAFBY safety padlocks, keyed differently, 10 packOne lock per person, numbered, each opened only by its own key.
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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 421 group lockout haspSix locks on one isolation point, for a crew working on the same machine.
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    • 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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