(COMPANY'S NAME)
I. PURPOSE
This policy is intended to comply with the requirements for lock-out and/or tag out of energy sources to prevent personal injury under OSHA’s lockout/tag out standard. It shall apply to all employees and contractors of: (Company Name).
The company has adopted this program in order to implement the OSHA standard regulating the control of hazardous energy (lockout/tag out), 29 C.F.R. §1910.147. That OSHA standard, in §1910.147(c)(1), requires that each employer shall establish:
“[A] program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performs any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, start up or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source, and rendered inoperative.”
Section 1910.147(c)(4) of that standard provides as follows:
“(i) procedures shall be developed, documented and utilized for the control of potentially hazardous energy when employees are engaged...
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