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What to Do When LOTO is Not Feasible

FDR Safety

I’m finding clients who have excellent lockout/tagout programs but who have not taken the necessary step of identifying tasks where LOTO is not feasible. The OSH Review Commission has ruled that tasks like set-up of a machine are not part of production; hence LOTO is required. Your only recourse is to prove LOTO is not feasible.

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The Myth Of Zero Energy And Its Adverse Impact On Prevention Through Design

FDR Safety

Examples of such impacts are: •impeding efficient and effective equipment designs when tasks (e.g., The term “zero energy” is not the same as the control of hazardous energy, and is not found in any OSHA regulations or materials or in U.S. national consensus standards (e.g.,

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Important LOTO Ruling for Die Changes

FDR Safety

A decision by the Occupational Safety Health and Review Commission offers importance guidance to all industries, particularly stamping, about when OSHA’s lockout/tagout regulations should be applied and when not. This decision is important for all industry. The post Important LOTO Ruling for Die Changes appeared first on FDRsafety.

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September 2014 newsletter

FDR Safety

If there is an OSHA citation most likely to be overturned on appeal to the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission it would be one issued under the General Duty clause. There was a feasible and useful method to correct the hazard. General Duty citations from OSHA may not hold up. By Jim Stanley. President, FDRsafety.

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OSHA’s Use of General Duty Clause in a Way Never Intended

FDR Safety

However, the requirement is made realistic by its application only to situations where there are ‘recognized hazards’ which are likely to cause or are causing serious injury or death. On March 17, 2015, Administrative Law Judge John Gatto of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission issued his Decision in the matter of Perez v.

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Facilities Maintenance Checklist and Procedures

Job Order Contracting

This standard is intended to be used to ensure that the equipment and systems are maintained in a safe operating condition, there are no parts, pieces, conditions or situations that my cause injury or endanger the users or pedestrians when used in accordance with the manufacturers placards, recommendations, instructions or guidelines.