California Code of Regulations › Title 8 - Industrial Relations › Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations › Chapter 4 - Division of Industrial Safety › Subchapter 5 - Electrical Safety Orders › Group 2 - High-Voltage Electrical Safety Orders › Article 36 - Work Procedures and Operating Procedures › Section 2940.13 - Hazardous Energy Control Procedures

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Application. The provisions of this
						section apply to the use of lockout/tagout procedures for the control of energy
						sources in installations for the purpose of electric power generation,
						including related equipment for communication or metering. Locking and tagging
						procedures for the deenergizing of electric energy sources which are used
						exclusively for purposes of transmission and distribution are addressed in
						Section 2940.14.
NOTE to subsection (a): Installations in electric power
						  generation facilities that are not an integral part of, or inextricably
						  commingled with, power generation processes or equipment are covered under
						  Section 3314.
(b) General.
(1) The employer shall establish a program
						consisting of energy control procedures, employee training, and periodic
						inspections to ensure that, before any employee performs any servicing or
						maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, start
						up, or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or
						equipment is isolated from the energy source and rendered
						inoperative.
(2) The employer's
						energy control program shall meet the following requirements:
(A) If an energy isolating device is not
						capable of being locked out, the employer's program shall use a tagout
						system.
(B) If an energy isolating
						device is capable of being locked out, the employer's program shall use
						lockout, unless the employer can demonstrate that the use of a tagout system
						will provide full employee protection as follows:
1. When a tagout device is used on an energy
						isolating device which is capable of being locked out, the tagout device shall
						be attached at the same location that the lockout device would have been
						attached, and the employer shall demonstrate that the tagout program will
						provide a level of safety equivalent to that obtained by the use of a lockout
						program.
2. In demonstrating that a
						level of safety is achieved in the tagout program equivalent to the level of
						safety obtained by the use of a lockout program, the employer shall demonstrate
						full compliance with all tagout-related provisions of this standard together
						with such additional elements as are necessary to provide the equivalent safety
						available from the use of a lockout device. Additional means to be considered
						as part of the demonstration of full employee protection shall include the
						implementation of additional safety measures such as the removal of an
						isolating circuit element, blocking of a controlling switch, opening of an
						extra disconnecting device, or the removal of a valve handle to reduce the
						likelihood of inadvertent energizing.
(C) Whenever replacement or major repair,
						renovation, or modification of a machine or equipment is performed, and
						whenever new machines or equipment are installed, energy isolating devices for
						such machines or equipment shall be designed to accept a lockout
						device.