www.safetygoodwe.com Topic : Safety Guideline Isolation and Lockout 1. Context: Persons may suffer fatal or serious injury if they are exposed to hazardous energy sources. One potential exposure occurs while undertaking inspection or maintenance work on plant and equipment. Therefore it is necessary to ensure that energies are controlled while personnel are working in, or on, plant and equipment. 2. Purpose: The purpose of this element is to ensure that the installation, construction, inspection and maintenance work performed on plant and equipment where there is potential for hazardous energy release, is only undertaken by competent and authorized persons after the equipment has been safely isolated, and locked such that the risk of fatalities is controlled. 3. Scope: This element applies to the management of any activity where personnel may be required to interface directly or indirectly with sources of hazardous energy that have the potent...
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