General
Only an authorized employee or employees performing the servicing or maintenance shall perform lockout or tagout.
If machinery or equipment is serviced, repaired, tested, adjusted, cleaned, maintained or adjusted or driving of piles where the work will expose employees to energy sources or contact with moving parts could injure employees, no work may be done until:
All parts and attachments have come to a complete stop and secured against inadvertent movement.
- Where the work will expose workers to energy sources, the hazard has been effectively controlled.
- Energy isolating devices have been applied, locked out and rendered any hazardous condition safe as required by local regulatory requirements.
- The employee(s) is assured that it is inoperative.
- Power tools may be maintained, repaired, tested or adjusted without applying isolation control if the work doesn't put the employee at risk by isolating the energy source from the power tool, dissipating any residual energy in the power tool and the energy source remains isolated during the activity.