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The Isolation Lockout and Use of Hold Tags (LOTO) Procedure provide the minimum requirements for safely isolating potentially hazardous energy sources during maintenance and servicing activities. This Procedure is designed to protect people from hazardous energy sources and to ensure that hazardous isolating devices have been appropriately identified. Also, equipment and or machines have been adequately stopped, isolated and locked, or tagged out before employees perform any maintenance or service work.
The equipment, machinery, and processes around us use various energy to operate. There are multiple forms of energy, such as mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, electrical, heat, radiation, gravitational, etc. Working with high-pressure systems follows the LOTO procedures in KAUST. Therefore, it is paramount that personnel engaging in the operation, maintenance, and upgrade of any equipment be thoroughly clear about how the equipment operates and the various interactions and dependencies that the equipment has with other systems.
