Deep Insight of LOTO (Lockout&Tagout) Part 1

Every year, tens of thousands of workers are injured or killed while working on live equipment.

Do you know the frequency rate of industrial injury accident every year in USA?

There are roughly 250, 000 LOTO-related industrial accidents per year. There were 200 deaths, 60000 cases of injured. The average number of days out of production due to accidents per year is 24!

10% of all industrial injuries are LOTO-related. Seeing these bloody accidents and lessons, we have no reason to pay attention to the safety of LOTO? !

So, what does LOTO mean? Why is LOTO is so important for industry safety?

LOTO, its full name is: Lockout-Tagout. It means to prevent personal injury by isolating or locking down certain dangerous energy sources.

Lockout: Install a lock on the energy isolation device to ensure that the energy isolation device and controlled equipment can only be operated when the locking device is removed.

Tagout: Put a signage on the energy isolation facility to warn other employees that the device cannot be operated until the signage is removed.

In industry, we also called it ECPL, Energy Control & Power Lockout.

Do you know of any serious incidents or near-misses involving maintenance work, cleaning or servicing powered machines?

So LOTO is very important for industry safety. The tag, we usually called it the life tag.

Studies have shown that Hazardous Energy Control Programs can reduce injury rates by 25 to 50 percent.

KOTONLINK smart LOTO (lockout & tagout) PADLOCK can perfectly solve this issue!

KOTONLINK KT-P57 LOTO(Lockout&Tagout) padlock, is OTG safety padlock.

It is keyless. You will never worry about losing your keys when using safety padlock.

OTG passive lock + Android phone +APP management software,through the management software platform: authorized personnel identity,authorization time, switch lock permission,

lock + sensor status and other information content management.

The OTG data line is locked with the mobile phone for power supply and communication.

At the same time, the chip information inside the lockand the phone ID are verified mutually.

After the authentication,the platform management software authorization, coding, switch lock,switch status, data uploading and other tasks can be performed.

The status information of the last lock can be saved in the passive intelligent lock.

OTG passive lock + Android phone +APP management software,

through the management software platform: authorized personnel identity,

authorization time, switch lock permission, lock + sensor status and other information content management.

The OTG data line is locked with the mobile phone for power supply and communication.

At the same time, the chip information inside the lock and the phone ID are verified mutually.

After the authentication, the platform management software authorization,

coding, switch lock, switch status, data uploading and other tasks can be performed.

The status information of the last lock can be saved in the passive intelligent lock.

To continued with Deep Insight of LOTO (Lockout&Tagout) Part 2