Safety Procedures - EcoWater CHC Series Service And Troubleshooting Manual

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Safety Procedures

1. Always use your appropriate PPE.
2. Always Notify the customer when you enter their site, and make sure
someone knows where you will be and when you are leaving their site.
3. Always use your brain and follow safety practices.
4. Always be aware of any customer requirements for safety and follow them, if
not, you may get in trouble, may be fired, electrocuted, burned, drown or die.
5. Your brain is the most important PPE, use it.
6. Never work on electricity if you do not have the appropriate equipment,
training, or it is raining.
7. Always use appropriate Lock Out and Tag Out procedures when entering a
tower or working on a motor starter. Remember the most important item
for Lock Out and Tag Out, is notification of the customer.
Lock Out, Tag Out Procedure
This procedure establishes the minimum requirements for the lockout of energy isolating devices
whenever maintenance or servicing is done on machines or equipment. It shall be used to ensure that
the machine or equipment is stopped, isolated from all potentially hazardous energy sources and locked
out before employees perform any servicing or maintenance where the unexpected energization or
start-up of the machine or equipment or release of stored energy could cause injury.
All employees are required to comply with the restrictions and limitations imposed upon them during
the use of lockout. The authorized employees are required to perform the lockout in accordance with
this procedure. All employees, upon observing a machine or piece of equipment which is locked out to
perform servicing or maintenance shall not attempt to start, energize, or use that machine or equipment.
Sequence of Lockout
(1) Notify all affected employees that servicing or maintenance is required on a machine or equipment
and that the machine or equipment must be shut down and locked out to perform the servicing or
maintenance.
(2) The authorized employee shall refer to the company procedure to identify the type and magnitude
of the energy that the machine or equipment utilizes, shall understand the hazards of the energy, and
shall know the methods to control the energy.
(3) If the machine or equipment is operating, shut it down by the normal stopping procedure (depress
the stop button, open switch, close valve, etc.).
(4) De-activate the energy isolating device(s) so that the machine or equipment is isolated from the
energy source(s).
(5) Lock out the energy isolating device(s) with assigned individual lock(s).
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