Lockout Tagout

A sports nutrition product supplier has been fined £70,000 and ordered to pay costs of £4,551.10 after an investigation found that the company had no risk assessments or safe systems of work in place at their Liverpool-based factory. An operative had three fingers of their right hand severed whilst cleaning a screw conveyor.  The screw had been switched off at...

Safety padlocks have been designed to include features that will in part be shared with their security padlock cousins but equally there will be some that are in total contrast to a common security padlock. The most important aspect of a Lockout Tagout system with regards to padlocks is the lock number control (we call this our Sentinel programme) where...

Stored energy in a system is the biggest potential hazard when any work is required on plant and machinery. Energy is often only considered as Electrical but is often in other common forms such as: Pneumatic – air pressure in lines and receiver Hydraulic – in hoses and pressure held by safety fuse Potential – rocks in a bucket on...