Lockout Tagout is the Physical restraint of Device as Hazardous Energy source, which supply Energy to Equipment, while performing Servicing/Maintenance, LOTO Standards also asks to apply Warning Tags on the Device under Restraint.
OSHA Standard for LOTO, CFR 1910.147, guides Practices & Process necessary to Restraint/Disable the Equipment to prevent Release of Hazardous Energy While employee is performing Servicing/Maintenance.
OSHA Requires Employee to use safe work Practices, including LOTO – Lockout Tagout Procedures, while employee is exposed to Electrical Hazards, working On or Near to Electrical Energy source Device/Equipment. LOTO also outlines restraint for controlling Hazardous Energy source be it Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, or other.
Purpose of Energy Control Program is to make sure that Equipment must be isolated from energy source and made inoperative before Service/Maintenance to be done, if there is possibility of unexpected startup that Equipment.
The intent of Energy Control Program is to ensure that before Employee does Service/Maintenance of Equipment, where the potential exists of Unexpected Energization/Starup of Equipment OR Release of stored Energy, the Equipment is isolated from Energy source and rendered inoperative.