Lockout Tagout for Authorized Employees

Don't count on luck, count on the lock. Protect yourself and your team from unintentional exposure to all types of hidden energy with this course that describes hazardous energy types and energy control procedures, including preparation, shutdown, isolation, lockout, stored energy check, verification, and release of lockout. Additional topics include lockout hardware and administration of an Energy Control Program (ECP). This course is intended for the "authorized employees" who typically perform lockout/tagout procedures.

 By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Define lockout/tagout
• Identify sources of hazardous energy and describe how hazardous energy is isolated
• Differentiate between an “authorized employee” and an “affected employee”
• List the six steps of an effective hazardous energy control program
• Describe the training requirements for lockout/tagout
• Describe the procedure for restarting equipment that had been locked out and tagged out