DISTRIBUTION:
B, E, G, HNEXT REVIEW DATE: May, 1996
POSITION RESPONSIBLE FOR REVIEW: Director, Environmental Health & Safety
PURPOSE: To establish policy and procedures for preventing injury to staff members and others caused by the unexpected start-up or energizing of equipment or machinery, or by the unexpected release of stored energy.
BACKGROUND: Staff members who service or maintain machinery or equipment are exposed to the risk of unexpected start up, energizing, or release of stored energy that could cause injury. FMS has developed, and conducts training on, a policy and procedures that prevent, or minimize the risk of, such occurrences.
POLICY: It is FMS policy that staff members and others isolate and make inoperative, before servicing or performing maintenance, any machinery or equipment, including piping systems.
PROCEDURES:
1. Staff members who service or maintain machinery or equipment where there is a risk of unexpected start up, energizing, or release of stored energy that could cause injury receive training from Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) in FMS Lock Out/Tag Out (LO/TO) procedures. EH&S develops lesson plans and training presentation materials, and then schedules and conducts regular training sessions, and keeps records of participants and their performance in training sessions. EH&S also trains staff members, including supervisors, who work in areas where LO/TO procedures may be found in use, to ensure widespread familiarity with those procedures, and a clear understanding of the reasons not to compromise them.
2. EH&S training covers the purpose of LO/TO procedures, the general rules and specific procedures for LO/TO and for reinstating machinery, equipment, and systems from LO/TO. Participants learn by lecture and discussion, and then must demonstrate their knowledge of the topics, and mastery of the procedures, covered in the training.
3. EH&S assigns all staff members in Operations and Utilities, whether or not they service or maintain machinery or equipment where there is a risk of unexpected start up, energizing, or release of stored energy, to attend a session of LO/TO training. The first priority is to schedule training for all Operations staff members; the next priority is to schedule training for new hires; the third priority is to conduct annual retraining in LO/TO procedures for all Operations staff members, including supervisors.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Staff members are responsible for using LO/TO procedures, and for active participation and learning in training sessions conducted by EH&S.
2. EH&S is responsible for preparing, scheduling, conducting, and recording LO/TO training.
3. Supervisors are responsible for accommodating their daily assignments so that staff members can attend LO/TO training, according to the EH&S schedule.
REFERENCES:
1. OSHA Regulation 29 CFR 1910.147 The Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout)
2. EH&S LOCKOUT/TAGOUT Training Program presentation materials
CANCELLATION(S): None
SIGNATURE:
Edward A. Guida, PE, CIH
Director, Environmental Health & Safety
ATTACHMENT(S): None