Under what circumstances should a lockout be required?

In recent years, with the rapid development of industry, equipment and facilities are used more and more widely in the production process of enterprises. It not only greatly improves labor productivity and reduces product manufacturing costs, but also replaces people in some relatively Working in dangerous and harsh environments or areas improves people’s working environment and reduces people’s risk of harm during operation.

 

During the maintenance work and production operation of these machinery and equipment, it is inevitable that equipment and instruments will fail. At this time, trained and authorized professional maintenance personnel are required to overhaul the equipment.

 

Before the equipment maintenance work starts, the maintenance personnel need to perform tag-lock operation on the repaired instrument, so as to prevent others from accidentally opening the operation without knowing the mechanical failure, so that the maintenance personnel and staff will be affected during the operation of the faulty machine. Injury, but also cause unnecessary losses and troubles.

 

The “tagout and lockout” protection measure can be said to be an effective safety protection measure currently used by the company in the process of equipment maintenance. It effectively protects the safety of the maintenance personnel, protects the equipment from being damaged, prevents accidents caused by the accidental release of equipment energy, and enables the maintenance personnel to control the danger by themselves, ensuring that they are not harmed.

 

3 Under what circumstances should a lockout be required?

1. To prevent the equipment from starting suddenly, it should be locked with a safety lock

2. To prevent the sudden release of residual power, it is best to use a safety lock to lock it:

3. When it is necessary to remove or pass through the protective device or other safety facilities, the safety lock should be used to lock the tag

4. When a certain part of the body is likely to be caught by the machine, the working area should be tagged and locked

5. Electric maintenance personnel should use safety locks for circuit breakers when performing circuit maintenance

6. Machine maintenance personnel should use safety locks for machine switch buttons when cleaning or lubricating machines with moving parts. In many cases, as long as danger isolation is required, safety locks are required for tagging and locking.

 

 

Best regards,
Maria Lee       

Marst Safety Equipment (Tianjin) Co.,Ltd

No. 36, Fagang South Road, Shuanggang Town, Jinnan District,

Tianjin, China

Tel: +86 22-28577599

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Post time: Nov-29-2022