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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Standard Operating Procedure Page 2 of 10 Lockout/ Tagout 1/00 Edition

1.0 PURPOSE

WRS recognizes the hazards of imexpected:

energization machine startup and/or release of stored energy

during service or maintenance activities on equipment/machines. The following Standard Operating Procedure: Control of Hazardous Energy - Lockout/Tagout, has been developed to provide for the isolation of all energy sources that could endanger employees.

This procedure establishes minimum requirements for the lockout and/or tagout of energy isolating devices and systems. Lockout and/or tagout shall be used to ensure that all equipment, machinery, systems and facilities are inoperable and isolated from all potentially hazardous energy. The Lockout/Tagout procedure shall be implemented before employees perform service or maintenance activities where the unexpected energization, start-up or release of stored energy could cause personal injury and/or damage to equipment, machinery, facilities or the environment.

2.0 SCOPE

A. Provisions outlined in this SOP include individual responsibilities, instructions for the implementation and removal of energy control procedures and employee training requirements.

B. Employees Covered - This procedure applies to all WRS employees and sub-contractors to the same.

C. Activities Covered

.'SEdee and maintenance activities on machines, equipment, systems and facilities during which the unexpected energization, start-up or release of stored energy could cause injury to employees must be conducted under the protection of a Lockout/Tagout SOP.

OperationZProduction activities during which an employee must remove or bypass a guard or other safety device, or place his/her body into an area of machinery/equipment where work is actually performed upon the material being processed (point of operation) must also be conducted in accordance with a Lockout/Tagout SOP.

D. This SOP is generic in nature and applies to the portion of scenarios described above which meet the following criteria:

1. The machine, equipment or facility component has no potential for stored or residual energy or re-accumulation of stored energy after shut down which could endanger employees;

2. The machine, equipment or facility component has a single energy source which can be readily identified and isolated;

3. The isolation and locking out of that energy source will completely de-energize and deactivate the machine, equipment or facility component;

4. The machine, equipment or facility component is isolated from that energy source and locked out during servicing, maintenance or site operations;

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