OSHA Offers Clarification on Control of Potentially Hazardous Energy

摘要

In response to a letter from the ANSI/ASSE Z244.1 Accredited Stan-dards Committee seeking clarifica-tion on lockout/tagout and the use of alternative control methods, OSHA indicates that if an OSHA standard provides a requisite level of employee protection, employers may not adopt an alternative approach that provides a lesser level of protection.Furthermore, upon request from the Z244.1 Committee for OSHA to adopt the Z244.1-2016 consensus standard, OSHA has indicated that it plans to issue a request for information (RH) on modernizing and updating its own 29 CFR 1910.147 standard on Control of Hazardous Energy. The current timeline for issuance of the RFI is April 2018.