Machine Safety & Lockkout, Tagout & Tryout Services

We Are The Industry Experts For Machine Safety.  Big or small we can guard them all!

Please click on this link to learn more about us.  Please ensure that you start from the beginning.  This is a small segment of a speech that one of our machine guarding consultants was asked to give for Hawaii OSHA and the American Society of Safety Professionals.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CQ3aouEIhE&t=100s

Our team is always ready to help customers, discuss their unique applications, and solve their machine-safeguarding needs. We are here to help businesses large and small address machine safety challenges and to remove the burden of managing the growing legal complexity of OSHA, ANSI, RIA, and NFPA requirements from simple turnkey solutions to complex, build-to-spec customized solutions.

We have partnered with another leading machine safeguarding design and engineering Podojil & Associates, Incorporated www.podojilconsulting.com  to bring you our clients the best in the machine safeguarding world to help solve your OSHA machine guarding, risk assessment, and safety training needs. Since 1971, Podojil & Associates, Incorporated has helped clients like (Lockheed Martin, Boeing Aerospace, Allied Signal Aerospace, General Electric Power System Group, Dyno-Nobel, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin Advanced Development Systems (Skunk Works), Goodrich Aerospace, California Prison Industry Authorities (CAL-PIA), Lockheed Martin Missile Divisions, and many other businesses both large and small improve industrial workplace safety and become compliant with OSHA, ANSI, NFPA, RIA, and ISO/EN machine safety standards.  

Our consultants are subject matter experts in the industry, each with more than 250 years of experience in safety codes/standards compliance, machine guarding, risk assessment, and safety training. Safety assessments shouldn't be overwhelming documents that leave businesses confused and unsure of what to do next. Our process is thorough and easy to understand so you can make the right follow-up decisions.

When assessing your machines and equipment, we determine compliance and risk based on:

OSHA regulations

Industry standards (ANSI, ISO, CSA, etc.)

Company-specific guarding standards

Recognized hazards

After completing our assessment, we deliver a comprehensive personalized machine safeguarding report that documents each piece of equipment with corresponding observations, machine safety or compliance issues, and a risk ranking to help you prioritize your safety plan. We determine the potential risk of each machine based on three key factors:

Frequency of use

Probability of injury

Severity of harm

As your full-service safety consultant, we walk you through each part of the assessment and help you understand the best options for creating a safety plan that will help fortify your workplace against risk. We'll then help you implement that plan so you can be fully compliant with a safer workplace that strengthens your bottom line.  Our belief is "Safety has no sides, It is either safe or it is unsafe".  

Being an IASHEP Authorized Training Center allows us to bring the best of the best consultants to team with us to help you.  You have the choice when selecting a consulting company.  Many will tell you that they have the experience, knowledge, and skills to do the job.  We know we do and we will match our qualifications against anyone.  When it comes to safety, health, or environmental consulting, why trust your business with anyone else? 

 OSHA LOTO AUDITS

Energy Isolating Lockout & Tagout (LOTO) Services

Has Your Company Performed Its Periodic LOTO Audit?  

Every state requires the creation of machine-specific lockout-tagout procedures to ensure equipment can be serviced without the threat of unexpectedly starting back up.  When authorized employees utilize machine-specific lockout-tagout procedures, they are following a process that if followed correctly will protect their life every time. There are minimum components that every procedure must include and recommendations from industry best practice that will ensure the procedures are not only optimized for safety, but also efficiency.    

OSHA 1910.147(c)(6)(i) states that "The employer shall conduct a periodic inspection of the energy control procedure at least annually to ensure that the procedure and the requirements of this standard are being followed..."

Patriot-Safety LLC. has well over 250 years of combined knowledge in this field. We can help you fulfill your compliance requirements and protect your employees by ensuring your lockout, tagout and try-out procedures are error-free and allow your employees to safely de-energize equipment. Our safety and operational professionals will be your second pair of eyes verifying if any changes need to be made to your procedures to keep your program compliant.

Our Process

We will come on-site and compare machinery or other equipment and processes with your current procedures to verify the energy isolation points on the procedures are correct according to the machines or equipment's owners/operators and engineering drawings.  

We will document any deficiencies we find during the process and document the audit. If applicable, we will also mark your written procedures with proof of audit. Once we have completed the audit you will receive a report detailing our findings.

With your report in hand our field engineers can correct any necessary procedure revisions discovered during the audit with our Lockout Procedure Writing Services.

Our team can also conduct your Authorized Employee Review to meet OSHA's Periodic Inspection requirement and see if employees are properly aware of and utilizing your lockout procedures.