Every good business has a specialty. For us, that specialty is Lockout Tagout auditing, procedure creation, and monitoring. We understand the importance of a well designed lockout tagout procedure and the potential consequences of poor monitoring. That is why we offer full wall-to-wall lockout tagout auditing services and 24/7 fully customizable monitoring software.

With every client, we recommend a three part monitoring process. The first step in the process is to set up a fully compliant and cost effective lockout tagout procedure. This procedure discusses everything about the lockout tagout process, and ensures your business is following all applicable OSHA standards. Once the procedure is finalized, it is your responsibility to enact the policy and enforce the rules.

But, we do have a system in place to help with that. We call it Factory Solutions, and it is a state of the art browser based program which allows you to monitor your lockout tagout procedures and compliance while allowing you to customize it in any way to keep your program up to date on your machinery and personnel changes.

Finally, we offer annual audits which will help you to ensure that nothing has changed in your lockout tagout needs or the OSHA guidelines. By auditing yourself annually, you are meeting OSHA’s requirements and ensuring that your business is protected against potential harm to your machinery and staff.

This three part process ensures that you are completely up to date and up to code in Lockout Tagout. By relenting the monitoring responsibilities to a third party, you are releasing yourself of the burden and entrusting the responsibility to trained, experienced professionals. If you have any questions about lockout tagout, please contact us. And if you have any other benefits to third party lockout monitoring, please leave a comment.

As important as implementing effective Lockout Tagout procedures is, it is more important to properly monitor them. Annual audits of your lockout tagout program are an important start in effective monitoring, but what about the rest of the year? You need to have a plan in place to manage machinery changes, personnel changes, and changes to OSHA’s regulations.

For years, the only viable option was to have lockout tagout monitoring as a crucial part of your Safety and Health Management System. Large amounts of resources needed to be dedicated to the monitoring of machinery, OSHA standards, and upkeep. When personnel changed, and maintenance responsibility changed hands, extreme care would need to be taken to properly train new employees on the methods of monitoring lockout tagout.

But in recent years, new methods have developed. Among the most effective methods is using software specifically designed to monitor your machinery, including changes to machinery, staff, and regulations. There are a handful of companies who offer these services at various costs, and this software can save your company a lot of money in labor and materials, and can save you a lot of headaches should you ever be audited by OSHA.

So if you are still using the old method of manually monitoring your procedures, it might be time to look into an alternative. If you are considering making the switch and would like some more information on lockout tagout software monitoring, please contact us. And if you have anything to add about software monitoring, please leave a comment.