Premier Factory Safety – Auditing Lockout Tagout Procedures

Auditing Lockout Tagout Procedures

An important part of any lockout tagout procedures is accounting for future updates. Procedures

need to be updated any time there is a change in personnel, machinery, regulations, or the layout

of a facility is adjusted. As such, lockout tagout procedures can have need to be updated quite

frequently for some companies. And the more often these procedures need to be updated, the

more likely an error or omission will occur.

To combat this, most companies will schedule routine lockout tagout audits. These can be done

internally by the safety team or with the assistance of a third party occupational safety and health

auditing firm. Either way, the primary concern is simply ensuring that the then current version of

the procedures is still compliant based upon whatever changes have been made to the facility,

machinery, etc.

For some companies, these audits are annual, for others they are quarterly, but they should

always involve a full inspection of the current facility, the current plans, and the changes made.

This will ensure not only that all changes made were accurate, but that no updates were missed

which should have been made.

Additionally, most companies have a failsafe mechanism in place to cover their lockout tagout

procedures between audits; especially if the audits are only once per year. A lot can change in

that time between audits, and if one update is incorrect, the procedures can spiral from there. One

convenient option is our Factory Solutions Software, which allows you to input your procedure

library, update it anywhere there is an internet connection, and is fully scalable, fully

customizable, and monitored by a leading third party lockout tagout auditing firm.

If you have any questions about lockout tagout audits or our Factory Solutions Software, please

Auditing Lockout Tagout Procedures