SAFETY
SAFETY FIRST
AVIATION MECHANICS MUST KNOW THE RULES OF LOCKOUT-TAGOUT AND FOLLOW THEM EVERY TIME THEY WORK ON AIRCRAFT.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standard for the Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout), Title 29 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 1910.147, details the practices and procedures workers should follow to disable machinery or equipment to prevent the release of hazardous energy during maintenance or service work.
According to OSHA, compliance with the lockout/tagout (LOTO) standard prevents an estimated 120 fatalities and 50,000 injuries every year. For mechanics maintaining or
servicing aircraft, adhering to this standard is critical.
“These individuals face serious and life-threatening injuries if the equipment they believe is turned off suddenly begins to operate while they are working on it,” stresses Todd Grover, global senior manager of Applied Safety Solutions at Master Lock.
According to Grover, should a
release of hazardous energy occur as a mechanic or technician works on an aircraft, the sudden movement of mechanical equipment could strike or crush them, give them a severe or even fatal electrical shock, release chemicals (fuel, hydraulic oil, etc.), and damage the aircraft they are working on.
LOTO procedures are so important
to workplace safety that the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) recently released revised processes in its own nearly 35-year-old LOTO regulation earlier this year. The revision of ANSI Z244.1, titled “The Control of Hazardous Energy- Lockout, Tagout and Alternative Methods,” outlines state-of-the-art methodology to enhance lockout safety practices to better protect people performing potentially hazardous work on machinery, equipment, and yes, even corporate jets.
Grover worked on the revisions for this standard, which was released
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DOMmagazine.com | aug 2017
BY RONNIE GARRETT
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