Unlimited Spaces provides safety padlocks and lockout devices for equipment such as circuit breakers, electrical plugs, pneumatics, valves and forklifts. This safety equipment can be mounted in stand alone stations or combined with your procedures, signage and a worksurface in our Lockout Tagout Activity Stations. Why use an Activity Station?
These are customised to meet the specific needs of your workplace with different station sizes and devices for your equipment and can be as simple or complicated as you require.
When working with plant or machinery, staff will need to repair, maintain, adjust, inspect or clean this equipment. To do these activities safely, plant isolation procedures must be in place to prevent the release of stored energy, or to stop machinery and it's components from being activated or set in motion.
Stored energy includes electricity incl. static or capacitors, fluids under pressure (e.g. steam, water, air or hydraulic oil), mechanical energy in the moving parts of mechanical systems and can include springs, thermal energy both high or low temperature incl. radiation and chemical reaction.
Lock out Tag out (LOTO) refers to the safety devices used to isolate stored energy and stop plant and machinery from being activated, the procedures to ensure all lockout points are identified, and Supervision to ensure procedures are followed.
Prior to writing a procedure . .
- Conduct an inspection of equipment by a trained individual who is thoroughly familiar with the equipment operation and associated hazards
- Identify and label lockout devices and locations
- Purchase locks, tags, and lockout devices
Most procedures will include . .
- Shut the plant down
- Identify all energy sources and other hazards
- Identify all isolation points
- Isolate all energy sources
- De-energise all stored energies
- Locking out all isolation points
- Tag plant controls, energy sources and other hazards
- Test by “trying” to re-activate the plant, without exposing the tester or others to risk.
Developing and documenting procedures is one part of an effective plant isolation program. All relevent people (will include operators, maintenance, contractors, plant management) must be trained and have access to procedures and administrative systems and supervision must be appointed to ensure the isolation provedures are followed - always!
While presented as an industrial safety application, lockout tagout is required in commercial, hospital, schooling, and any place where equipment must be isolated.
Consult your Government safety authority or a safety consultant for additional information. Unlimited Spaces can arrange a free site survey of your workplace in most Australian locations to determine what safety padlocks and lockout devices you need. Email us for more information . . .
While Plant Isolation and Lockout Tagout are important safety processes when maintaining or operating plant, they cannot be viewed alone. Other safety activities will include work permits (e.g. confined spaces, hot work, heights), contractor control, Job Safety Analysis (JSA), PPE storage, and emergency response to name a few.
The Lockout Tagout Activity Station or Safety Space OHS Workstation provide a location to conduct and coordinate all of your safety activities, to store PPE, and to display policies and procedures.
Solutions include:
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Lockout Tagout Activity Station |
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Masterlock 410 series padlocks |
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Lockout station s1900 |
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Lockout cable 8611 |
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Lockout pneumatic S3900 |
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Electrical lockout 491B |
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Gate Valve lockout |
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Lockout Tagout module for the Safety Space |
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Lockout 20 padlock station |
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Storage cabinet to store lockout equipment |
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