If you are looking to create new lockout tagout policies and procedures or to update your existing plan, it is important to first review OSHA Standard 1910.147. This standard, created by OSHA, sets the minimum guidelines for lockout tagout policies to ensure employee safety. Unfortunately, if you have never looked at this standard before, it can be quite complicated and has been known to give even seasoned safety and health professionals a difficult time.

Which leaves business owners with two options: hire a third party lockout tagout specialty firm to assist in the process, which will cost a lot of money and take ownership of the maintenance out of the hands of the business, or try to do it in-house and hope for the best. For most, neither option is very desirable.

Fortunately, we have released our Factory Solutions Software. This software assists you in creating and maintaining your lockout tagout procedures, while leaving you in control of them. The program is monitored and maintained by our professional lockout tagout specialists, and ensures your procedures are in accordance with Standard 1910.147, while also monitoring them for changes in the regulations. Additionally, should something at your facility change, you can simply update your procedures on the program and make sure your facility grows in a compliant manner.

If you have any questions about establishing lockout tagout policies and procedures or about our Factory Solutions Software, please contact us. If you have anything else to add about lockout tagout policies and procedures, please leave a comment.

Evaluating Your Lockout Tagout Procedures

It is critically important to constantly evaluate all of your occupational safety and health policies and procedures. At least annually, you want to audit your facility for new hazards and ensure your existing hazards are well documented and accounted for. Finally, you want to ensure nothing changed in the way of OSHA regulations and standards. But nowhere in your facility is this more important than your lockout tagout procedures.

Your lockout tagout procedures will save lives, will be scrutinized if you are ever audited by OSHA, and are difficult to properly maintain. Personnel changes, machine updates, system buildouts, changes in workflow or process, and regulatory changes are just a few of the potential issues which will arise year over year requiring tweaking, or complete rewriting, of your policies. Unfortunately, most companies hire third party lockout tagout specialty firms to handle the creation of their lockout tagout procedures, leaving them in a situation where they cannot self-evaluate the procedures.

And while we recommend a full third party audit of all things occupational safety and health, not just lockout tagout related, many companies do not have the resources or the desire for such a service. And even those which have a routine auditing schedule run the risk of issues arising between audits.

For this reason, we created our Factory Solutions Software. It is a service which allows you to craft your lockout tagout procedures with the backing of a leader in the lockout tagout arena while remaining in control of the crafting and monitoring of said procedures. It is fully customizable, fully scalable, monitors for system or regulatory updates, and is accessible from anywhere an internet connection is available. It gives you the power to evaluate and monitor your lockout tagout procedures in real time, ensuring you are always compliant.

If you have any questions about our Factory Solutions Software, please contact us and we will be happy to explain how it will benefit your company. If you have anything to add about the importance of routine lockout tagout procedure evaluation, please leave a comment.

Many company owners handle lockout tagout procedures in house. They create their

plans themselves, monitor them, update them, and stay abreast of regulatory changes.

They assign this as an ancillary function of the safety or operations team, and expect that

it will be handled properly, without giving much thought to it. Unfortunately, lockout

tagout is not like the rest of the occupational safety and health industry; the regulations

governing it (Standard 1910.147) are extremely complicated, every facility needs

very specific procedures in place, and even just a change in personnel can require new

procedures be written.

Unfortunately, the other option is to hire an unnecessarily expensive third party to handle

the lockout tagout procedures, from creation to maintenance to updating. And you want

to try to take over the responsibilities at some point, it is usually almost impossible as the

procedures have become so complex and firm specific.

But now, there is another option. With our Factory Solutions Software, you get the

security of a professional lockout tagout auditing firm with the comfort of knowing that

you are in control of the procedure creation, maintenance, and monitoring. And since this

software is available anywhere an internet connection is available, it means that updating

lockout tagout procedures have never been more convenient. We help you create your

procedures, we monitor them for regulatory changes, and we help you amend your

procedures should something change at your facility. It is truly the best of both worlds.

If you have any questions about our Factory Solutions Software, please contact us for

more information. If you have anything to add about whether it is better to outsource or

maintain lockout tagout procedures in-house, please leave a comment.

Creating lockout tagout procedures is never an easy task; it can be difficult to understand OSHA Standard 1910.147, confusing to maintain the procedures, and time consuming to update lockout tagout procedures. But something you can do to save some time and help protect your employees is to create an auditing schedule for your lockout tagout procedures. The auditing can be done in house or with the help of a qualified third party lockout tagout auditing firm, but it should always include certain, basic things.

For starters, the audit should review current OSHA policy to ensure nothing has changed since the last review. It is likely that you will be out of compliance is the regulations changed, and is the easiest way to find yourself facing a hefty fine from OSHA. The audit should also review what changes have happened within your company since the last audit. If any machinery or relevant personnel have changed, you will want to see what, if any, impact these changes have on your lockout tagout procedures. Finally, you want to inspect your placards and other associated visuals. If they are damaged, worn, or out of date, they need to be replaced.

But based upon your specific company needs, there can be many other things required during the audit, as well. For this reason, many companies hire a third party to maintain their lockout tagout procedures. And while this helps to ensure the company remains in compliance, it can also become quite expensive, and takes the company out of control of their own procedures.

For this reason, we created our Factory Solutions Software. It is an online program which tracks and monitors your lockout tagout procedures. It is fully customizable, fully scalable, and can be updated anywhere internet is available. It will notify you if there is a problem, and will help you in updating your procedures. So it keeps you in control, but gives you the peace of mind knowing your procedures are watched by a qualified third party lockout tagout auditing firm. It also serves as constant, real-time auditing, instead of moment-in-time auditing you get with a physical audit. When combined with physical, on-site third party safety audits, Factory Solutions Software helps to create the safest work environment possible for your employees.

If you have any questions about third party safety audits or our Factory Solutions Software, please contact us. And if you have anything to add about auditing lockout tagout procedures, please leave a comment.

In the world of occupational health and safety, there is not much that is more difficult to understand and implement than lockout tagout procedures. OSHA created Standard 1910.147, which sets basic guidelines and rules relating to lockout tagout, which should act as a blueprint for any lockout tagout procedures created. This standard, however, is extremely complicated and leaves many first timers in a very confused place.

This confusion generally leads to one of three things: the employer either attempts to do it himself, leaving his employees potentially at risk for serious injury or death and the company at risk for sizable fines; the employer hires a qualified third party lockout tagout specialty firm to create the procedures, which creates sizable upfront costs to the company and takes control out of the hands of ownership; or the employer finds an online “cheat sheet” and hopes the material is accurate.

Thankfully, a new option has developed over the last few years which acts as a hybrid of all three; you can remain in control of your lockout tagout procedures, under the supervision of a true powerhouse in the lockout tagout arena, and use easy to understand documents to guide you. This is accomplished through our Factory Solutions Software, which is a fully customizable, fully scalable, and is available to you anywhere you have an internet connection. We ensure the program is up to date on all regulations, and we ensure your illustrations are accurate, but you can make changes as you need without the hassle of consulting a third party, delaying your business for days waiting for an approval.

If you would like more information about our Factory Solutions Software, please contact us. And if there is anything else you would like to add about creating new lockout tagout procedures, please leave a comment.

After you go through the headache of establishing lockout tagout procedures, it is important to have a procedure or plan of some kind in place to maintain those procedures. OSHA very heavily regulates lockout tagout procedures, and they can, and will, update their policies if needed to maintain the safest possible work environment.

OSHA regulates lockout tagout procedures with Standard 1910.147, which is often considered one of the most difficult standards to understand and comply with. It is no surprise, then, that even properly created lockout tagout procedures are often quickly out of compliance due to either regulatory changes or changes to a company’s structure. And the unfortunate truth is that most companies monitor and maintain their lockout tagout procedures in-house with a woefully understaffed and unprepared safety team.

To help employers maintain the safest possible workplace, while keeping a mindful eye to OSHA regulations, we at PF Safety have created software specifically designed to maintain your lockout tagout procedures. It is fully customizable, fully scalable, and will help you monitor both changes at your company and regulatory changes. You remain in control of your lockout tagout procedures, with the ability to update your machinery or personnel anywhere there is an internet connection, while still being provided the support of a premier lockout tagout auditing firm.

If you have any questions about our Factory Solutions Software and how it could streamline your lockout tagout procedures, please contact us. If you have anything to add about the importance of proper maintenance of your lockout tagout procedures, please leave a comment.

In the world of occupational health and safety, there is not much that is more difficult to

uderstand and implement than lockout tagout procedures. OSHA created Standard 1910.147, which sets basic guidelines and rules relating to lockout tagout, which should act as a blueprint for any lockout tagout procedures created. This standard, however, is extremely complicated and leaves many first timers in a very confused place.

This confusion generally leads to one of three things: the employer either attempts to do it himself, leaving his employees potentially at risk for serious injury or death and the company at risk for sizable fines; the employer hires a qualified third party lockout tagout specialty firm to create the procedures, which creates sizable upfront costs to the company and takes control out of the hands of ownership; or the employer finds an online “cheat sheet” and hopes the material is accurate.

Thankfully, a new option has developed over the last few years which acts as a hybrid of all three; you can remain in control of your lockout tagout procedures, under the supervision of a true powerhouse in the lockout tagout arena, and use easy to understand documents to guide you. This is accomplished through our Factory Solutions Software, which is a fully customizable, fully scalable, and is available to you anywhere you have an internet connection. We ensure the program is up to date on all regulations, and we ensure your illustrations are accurate, but you can make changes as you need without the hassle of consulting a third party, delaying your business for days waiting for an approval.

If you would like more information about our Factory Solutions Software, please contact us. And if there is anything else you would like to add about creating new lockout tagout procedures, please leave a comment.

One of the biggest complaints in the lockout tagout industry is cost. For most, it is monetary cost, as it can grow expensive to create and maintain lockout tagout procedures if you employ a third party lockout tagout specialty firm. For others, the cost is time, as learning to understand OSHA Standard 1910.147 is difficult, and trying to create effective lockout tagout procedures based upon it without prior knowledge of the standard can be daunting. And for still others, the cost is twofold, as they spend untold time creating their procedures, only to need help from a third party to maintain them.

Fortunately, there are options which cut both the time and monetary costs to a fraction of what they once were. These are options which allow a partnership between a qualified third party lockout tagout specialty firm and the company needing the lockout tagout services. The lockout tagout firm helps the company to create the procedures and to create a plan to maintain them long term with online software, which is fully scalable, fully customizable, and accessible anywhere there is internet.

We offer this service through our Factory Solutions Software. With this software, you can create, maintain, and update your own procedures under the guidance of a premier lockout tagout specialty firm, but do so at a steep financial discount because you are doing it yourself. We can be as hands-on or hands-off as you want, allowing you to find the perfect balance of financial and time costs.

If you have any questions about our Factory Solutions Software, please contact us. If you would like to add anything about cost effective lockout tagout solutions, please leave a comment.