Using Lockout and Tagout Procedures to Prevent Injury and Death During Machine Maintenance

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Workers are at risk of severe injury and death during machine maintenance and servicing if proper lockout and tagout procedures are not followed. NIOSH recommends developing and implementing a hazardous energy control program including lockout and tagout procedures and worker training to prevent such incidents. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Electric Injuries Engineering Maintenance Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-potential Accident-prevention Accident-rates Control-technology Electrocutions Engineering-controls Equipment-design Equipment-operators Injuries Injury-prevention Machine-operators Maintenance-workers Surveillance Traumatic-injuries

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• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications   ; NIOSH Numbered Publications  
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2011156
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Periodical ; Periodical
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research ; EID - Education and Information Division ; DSR - Division of Safety Research ; EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20038915
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2011-111403
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2011-156, 2011 Apr; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7f5dbbb1a74f1309eda6cd911bf2a3aba478915c10b9809ef036c1d89a18d70f61767a6ea8df8ae0b6083516d4a69370fb4421772094794ebafbdca328fa188d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209975/cdc_209975_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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