What is Lockout Tagout?

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.

 

What is Lockout Tagout?

1. Lockout and Tagout: LOTO=Lockout/Tagout;

2. Lockout (Lockout) refers to the use of locking to prevent people from randomly operating the power source or equipment of the isolated dynamic isolation until the maintenance is completed and the lock is removed.

3. Tagout refers to the use of tags to warn others that the power source or equipment that has been isolated cannot be operated casually.

 

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

Mob:86-18920760073


Post time: Nov-16-2022