Management of Hazardous Energy: Deactivation, De-Energization, Isolation, and Lockout

Providing the practical tools needed by safety officials to assess hazardous energy situations in equipment, machines, and systems, this book includes reviews of hundreds of accident summaries, explains the effects of hazardous energy on humans, defines risk-based versus deterministic strategies for the management of hazardous energy, and discusses the role of human factors in hazardous energy accidents, including limitations of information processing and sensory overload. Creating simple procedures for ensuring worker safety and regulatory compliance, it offers US and international strategies for hazardous energy management and contains examples to illustrate the application of concepts to specific areas.