When a company needs to first establish lockout tagout procedures or needs to completely scrap and create new lockout tagout procedures for whatever reason, the initial process can be extremely costly and time consuming. The regulations relating to lockout tagout, OSHA Standard 1910.147, are painfully complex at times, and leave a lot of first time readers puzzled. Online quick guides and shortcuts are incomplete and often totally useless, and paying for a third party service can be costly.

So owners are left to make a difficult series of decisions which will impact the company’s bottom line and the health and well being of the staff. Some of the basic considerations to make when determining if the lockout tagout procedures should be created in-house or outsourced to a qualified third party lockout tagout specialty firm are the length of time until the project needs to be completed, the experience of the staff involved, and the scope of the project.

Unfortunately for most business owners, the determination after that evaluation is that a third party is needed. And in the past that meant bringing in auditors from a firm who would review the facility, create the procedures, and either monitor it from afar leaving the business owner hoping it was really being reviewed or leave monitoring up to the same safety team that was unable to create the procedures to begin with.

Now there is a new hybrid option. This new option is our Factory Solutions Software and allows users to create, store, update, and monitor their lockout tagout procedures from anywhere an internet connection is available. The procedures are created under the guidance of a trained lockout tagout professional and are constantly reviewed by the program to ensure compliance and maximum efficiency. When changes are needed, they are guaranteed to be done to code or the system will reject the changes. It is the perfect marriage of the two previous worlds.

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