Lockout/Tagout for Authorized Employees
Prepare to work as an authorized employee under your employer's lockout/tagout program. Learn the knowledge requirements for controlling hazardous energy during equipment servicing and maintenance.
- Unlimited exam retakes
- Mobile access
- Certificate available immediately after successful completion
- Group and business enrollment available
Protect Yourself and Others from Hazardous Energy
Servicing and maintaining machinery can expose workers to unexpected startup, energization, or stored-energy release. OSHA's lockout/tagout standard requires employers to control these hazards and train authorized employees who perform lockout or tagout.
This course provides online knowledge training on hazardous energy sources, energy types and magnitudes, and the methods necessary for energy isolation and control.
Recognize Hazardous Energy Sources
Identify electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, chemical, thermal, and other energy sources that can create hazards during servicing and maintenance.
Understand Energy Types and Magnitudes
Assess the type and magnitude of energy present in workplace equipment and understand the risks associated with each source.
Energy Isolation Methods
Understand the methods and means used to isolate and control hazardous energy, including lockout and tagout procedures.
Safe Application and Removal
Learn principles for safely applying, using, and removing energy control devices during maintenance work.
Workers Who Perform Equipment Servicing and Maintenance
Designed for employees whose duties include or will include locking or tagging out machinery under their employer's energy control program.
Workers who service, repair, or maintain machinery where unexpected energization could occur.
Skilled tradespeople who install, dismantle, repair, and move machinery in industrial workplaces.
Electrical workers who service equipment requiring the control of electrical energy sources.
Mechanics who inspect, repair, and maintain industrial production and processing equipment.
Technicians who service equipment with electrical, mechanical, or other hazardous energy sources.
Operators whose work includes servicing or maintenance that requires lockout/tagout.
Knowledge Training for Lockout/Tagout Authorized Employees
OSHA's Control of Hazardous Energy standard requires employers to establish an energy control program and train authorized employees to recognize hazardous energy sources, understand energy types and magnitudes, and use methods for isolation and control.
This course provides the online knowledge component. Employers retain additional responsibilities for workplace procedures, equipment, training, inspections, and program implementation. State Plans may impose additional requirements.
29 CFR 1910.147
Covers federal OSHA knowledge topics for authorized employees who perform lockout or tagout.
Energy Control Knowledge
Addresses hazardous energy recognition, energy magnitude, isolation, and control methods.
Unlimited Exam Retakes
Review the material and retake the final assessment as often as needed at no added cost.
Immediate Certificate
Access a Certificate of Completion online immediately after passing the final assessment.
Online Knowledge Training and Workplace Implementation
This course teaches foundational knowledge for authorized employees. The employer must provide the workplace-specific procedures, instruction, equipment, and program required by OSHA and decide who performs authorized employee duties.
What This Online Course Provides
- Knowledge training on recognizing hazardous energy sources
- Instruction on energy types, magnitudes, isolation methods, and control measures
- Principles for applying, using, and removing energy control devices safely
- A final assessment with unlimited retakes
- An immediate Certificate of Completion after successful completion
What the Employer Must Still Provide
- Written energy control procedures specific to workplace machinery and equipment
- Workplace-specific training on procedures, equipment, and hazards
- A complete energy control program with procedures, training, and periodic inspections
- Appropriate lockout/tagout devices and oversight of their proper use and maintenance
- At least annual inspections of energy control procedures
- Training certification records and assignment of authorized employee duties
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Gain foundational knowledge for working safely under your employer's lockout/tagout program. Train online at your own pace and receive a Certificate of Completion immediately after passing.