Matthew Nugent

Most failures in lockout/tagout procedures are not where reliability teams expect to find them. The dangerous moment is not the application of energy isolation. It's the return to service. This is the half of the procedure that gets less attention in training, less rigour in execution, and almost no scrutiny in audits. The lockbox came off. The work was completed. The line was restarted. As far as most paperwork is concerned, the procedure worked.

A facility writes machine-specific lockout/tagout procedures during commissioning. Every energy source is identified. Every isolation point is documented. Every step matches the equipment on the floor. On day one, the procedure is accurate. Six months later, a motor gets replaced. A guard is relocated. A pneumatic line is rerouted during a weekend shutdown. The equipment changes, but the LOTO procedure does not.

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