Each year, thousands of employees are injured while performing basic repair and maintenance work, as per Health and Safety Executive. Many of these are due to the uncontrolled release of energy.

Energy can take many forms and each presents its own hazards and require controls to ensure the health and safety of those working with or near it.

Types of energy include:

• Gravity
• Hydraulic
• Heat
• Electrical Shock
• Pressurised
• Chemical
• Pneumatic

Having a Lock-Out, Tag Out, Try Out (LOTOTO) strategy helps businesses reduce the risk of injuries and accidents due to these types of energy. It ensures the safety of workers and reduces business risk. Employees must be provided with adequate training to implement these procedures properly.

Human Focus’ Lock-out, Tag-out, Try out (LOTOTO) – Safe System of Work online course will provide your employees with this vital information.

Legislative Requirements

The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER) require business owners to protect workers from possible injuries associated with work equipment. This includes equipment which can store energy in its various forms.

The electricity at work regulations 1989 places legal duties on employers to ensure the safety of electrical devices. It also draws attention to the importance of isolating electrical equipment before commencing work on live circuits.

This LOTOTO online training course provides trainees with a clear understanding of the importance of the Lock-Out, Tag Out, Try Out (LOTOTO) procedure as a safety measure preventing accidents and injuries during maintenance and service works.

This health and safety online training requires:

• No prior subject knowledge
• No course certification requirement

The users/trainees will explore the following aspects of the equipment isolation procedure in this LOTOTO training course:

• Case studies
• Energy Isolation Principles
• Roles & Responsibilities
• Lock-Out, Tag-Out Devices
• LOTOTO: Initial Steps
• LOTOTO: Isolation
• LOTOTO: Return to Operation

This LOTOTO training online is intended for those who work in any industrial environment and uses the work equipment or machines for servicing and maintenance work. Experienced workers such as plant managers and engineers can also benefit from this course.

The delegates will learn the following aspects of safe working with industrial equipment in this training:

• Examination of several case studies to highlight where energy isolation has required the consequences of failing to do so.
• Energy isolation principles to check energy sources on machines and the need for their accountability
• Roles and responsibilities of workers to ensure the LOTOTO system is functioning correctly to keep everybody safe
• Examination of the devices used to lock out and tag out energy sources
• Nine key Steps involved in the LOTOTO procedure
• Roles of the responsible individual at each step of LOTOTO

• Compliant with relevant health and safety regulation
• Reduces the risk of electrical injuries and accidents
• Improves safety culture within the industry
• Improves work efficiency

• Learn why LOTOTO is required
• Gain understanding of LOTOTO procedures
• Build awareness of LOTOTO devices
• Gain confidence in work practices

Human Focus online course offers the following benefits:

• RoSPA assured
• Fully compliant with health and safety legislation
• User-friendly learning management system (LMS)
• Easy tracking of progress and training records
• Fully online
• Self-paced
• Comprehensive
• Accessible from any device

Format: 100% online / Single Module / 7 sections

Duration:  30+ minutes

Knowledge Test 

The knowledge test is a pass or fail assessment test. It appears when trainees complete all sections of the course. This test requires a score of at least 100% to achieve the certification. Trainees have two attempts to pass the assessment test.

Trainees will earn a certificate from Human Focus assured by RoSPA after completion of this course.

These certificates are sent online via registered email in PDF format and are downloadable.

• Safe maintenance health check
• Safe isolation of plant and equipment
• Using work equipment safely
• Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations
• Major accidents in industries – case studies
• Working in confined spaces safely
• Protecting general health and safety of workers
• Risk assessment at work
• Permit to work

Lock-out devices use a lock to ensure an energy-isolating device cannot move from a safe position so that equipment or machinery cannot be energised.

The type of lock-out devices needed depends on the machinery or the electrical equipment you plan to lock out. When setting up the isolation strategy, one needs to assess the equipment requirements and then choose the lock-out products.

Examples of Lock-out devices include:

• Keyed and combination locks
• Gate valve locks
• Ball valve locks
• Group lockout hasp
• Valve hand wheel covers
• Circuit breaker locks

A failure to safely isolate of energy sources is a significant contributor to many workplace fatalities in the UK.  Having a lock-out tag-out strategy in the workplace helps keep employees safe while performing any repairing or maintenance work on electrical equipment. The uncontrolled source of energy is hazardous and causes severe injuries and even fatalities if handled carelessly.

The LOTOTO procedure ensures that any hazardous energy source is isolated before commencing any maintenance or servicing work with electrical equipment.

For safe isolation of electrical equipment, the isolation points must be identified and labelled. After that, install the energy isolation devices for blocking the equipment from the energy source.

The important point to consider here is you need to isolate all the energy sources, rather than just isolating the fuses.