Danray Products LLC has introduced a point-of-operation-opening safety scale that can be used to check the point-of-operation opening for no safeguard required in accordance with OSHA, ANSI, and CSA ...

I’ve been discussing the details of Lockout/Tagout programs in this space for the past few months (“Lockout/Tagout: The Devil is in the Details,” March 17, 2011; “Lockout/Tagout: When and How?” I’ve ...

Eaton (ETN-0.9%) has announced a new electrical lockout device that minimizes the safety risks during machine maintenance and significantly improves efficiency of the lockout procedure. Eaton’s ...

Many employers have invested a lot of time, money and effort into making their workplace safety programs as effective as possible. Precautions against excessive noise, respirable contamination, fall ...

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The lockout/tagout regulation (29 CFR 1910.147) focuses on disabling a machine by isolating it from its source of power. Designed to guard against injuries and deaths that can occur when someone is ...

OSHA’s 1910.147 standard covering Lockout/Tagout is straightforward, but there’s often confusion about the details. Lanny Berke explains the sections that most often lead to missteps. Many of the ...

Freres Lumber Co. was cited four times for safety and procedural violations uncovered during inspections launched after a worker died at its Mill City plant in September 2014, according to documents ...

It’s a problem common to every hackerspace, university machine shop, or even the home shops of parents with serious control issues: how do you make sure that only trained personnel are running the ...