September - NRASP Membership Luncheon - Lock Out/Tag out Safety & Awareness by Ben Doyle

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Description:  Failure to control hazardous energy accounts for nearly 10 percent of the serious accidents in many industries. Proper lockout/tagout (LOTO) practices and procedures safeguard workers from hazardous energy releases. OSHA describes LOTO as the practices and procedures necessary to disable machinery or equipment to prevent hazardous energy release. The OSHA standard for The Control of Hazardous Energy (LOTO) is 29 CFR 1910.147 for general industry outlines measures for controlling different types of hazardous energy. The LOTO standard establishes the employer's responsibility to protect workers from hazardous energy. Employers are also required to train each worker to ensure that they know, understand, and are able to follow the applicable provisions of the hazardous energy control procedures.

Ben will provide an overview of LOTO safety awareness and best practices.

About Ben Doyle: Ben Doyle is an M State instructor, teaching classes for the Industrial Maintenance program in Wadena, as well as instructing industrial maintenance and safety classes for M State Custom Training Services.

Ben has an AAS in Agriculture Resources Technology, an AAT in Electrical Construction, and an AA in Liberal Arts and is an authorized OSHA Outreach trainer for General Industries and Construction.

Ben has been a Journeyman Electrician since 2004 in WA and now in MN working in a variety of industries including commercial, residential, industrial, and agriculture.  Ben started his career in teaching in 1996 as an instructor for Intel University while working at Intel in DuPont, WA.  Since that time he has taught many different ages and subjects from vehicle training in the WA Air National Guard to multiple subjects for youth in 4H as the Wadena County Wildlife Instructor.  

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