This is a simple tagging technique that helps maintenance, engineers, operators and supervisors identify when the piece of equipment was installed or when work was done to it. In the food and beverage industry, this could apply to a host of processes, from raw material storage and feeding through the production area and out the door.
Tags are exactly what they sound like instructive tags on a piece of equipment.
The risks that safety procedures like this one affect any plant, whether in the power industry or the food and beverage industry and not just in the plant s power-related utilities. Any process material handling, packaging, blending, baking, pasteurizing, or otherwise processing must be made risk-free and therefore compliant to standards. This can be seen in my power plant example. Our twin unit plant was mirror image and the units identical in layout. The pump, energized with 4.16kv, has the potential to start and run water and the water stored in its lines are in excess of 212 F, which will immediately flash to steam.