lockout tagout certification

If you are a worker or contractor for a company in the oil and gas industry or the construction industry, or even other industries surrounding those listed, did you know that you need loto training and certification? 

OSHA, which stands for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has set up certain training standards that any worker in specific industries needs to undergo. Some of these are workers in healthcare, but the primary industry our team at True Safety University has worked with are those working in oil and gas and construction industries. 

You can find the full guide that OSHA releases and regularly updates by viewing the document “Training Guidelines for OSHA Standards”. That document outlines what training are required and what level of frequency they are required to be implemented with. 

For the sake of this article, we specifically want to talk about the workers and contractors that are working the general industry and construction industries and who need solid loto training, also known as lockout tagout. 

If you are wondering what loto training is than this article along with other blogs and articles on our site will help you to understand what steps you need to take with lockout tagout in order to remain osha compliant and avoid osha complaints or citations. In the industries that specifically need lockout tagout training, we need to recognize that oftentimes the machines that are being used are very large, powerful, and have hydraulic functions where energy can be stored and released. 

Sometimes when the machines are not shut off properly, those machines can release stored up energy and can injure or kill workers. Lockout tagout training seeks to train workers in the necessary understand and elements of these machines. Although lockout tagout training is done when a new hire is made that is more site specific and machine specific, there is still other training that has to happen on a more regular basis which is included in some of our online training classes that will give you the loto training and certification that you need. 

Knowing how to properly implement lockout tagout training can be the difference between life and death for you or those around you which is of utmost importance. 

Our focus at True Safety University is not just giving you what is required, but going “beyond compliance”. WE want to make sure that you don’t just get by but that you choose to take ownership over safety, ownership over you environment, ownership over the training you have have to go through, including loto training, so that you can guarantee that you are doing all you can to create a safe environment around you and those you are working with. 

When safety is not prioritized, it makes the work we are doing no longer worth it. Why, you may ask? Because if you are going to work each day, only to put yourself at risk of being injured or killed on the job, what is the point of the work you are doing? What is the point of going to work to provide for your life, or loved ones around you, or family around you that you love if you won’t come home the next day to enjoy life with those you love? 

This is why safety is important. 

This is why we put effort, resources, and time into creating online safety training that you will love and that will help you to do your job better. Our trainins can help you have a more efficient and effective safety program which will help you to save more money and more time. 

But why online training? Good question. WE get asked this question because chances are the company you work for has a safety professional, safety coordinator, or safety trainer who oversees the training and safety for the company. If we started doing online training wouldn’t it make that person’s job obsolete? 

The truth is the exact opposite. WE have seen that our clients who have a solid relationship and partnership with an online training partner like True Safety University actually helps the safety coordinator to have more time on their hands to invest in the people around them and the specific challenges they are facing on their sites. 

Many of our clients have multiple projects going on at multiple sites and keeping track of the different certifications at the different sites can be overwhelming especially when peoples certifications expire at different times. Often times, people are keeping track of the loto training certifications with paper files or on a spreadsheet. 

With our loto training that is in True Safety University, you can see all of the people who have completed the training easily and quickly by logging into your user dashboard. This makes it easy to get notified when people need to get recertified as well as giving them the opportunity to go through with that certification on their own time. 

One of the benefits of an online loto training program is that the course material will be available on any device that your workers have at any time. This means that instead of going and spending the time going over the trainings with your guys, you can give them the info for their True Safety University account and you can see exactly how they do ont he training. See what questions they get wrong and ask them questions on the areas where they struggled. But if your guys know the content well and are paying attention, they will retain it will and you won’t have to pull those workers away from work to review their content which means more time on the field which means more time doing revenue producing or product producing work. 

If you are an individual wanting to get our online loto training, click here to get your course and certification today. 

If you are a manager and are interested in getting our loto training for your entire team, click here to schedule a demo with our team. WE would love to learn more about your specific training needs and challenges and see if True Safety University would be a fit for you.