LOTO Retraining
There are many reasons to retrain your employees. Here are a couple examples:
- To introduce new or revised control methods and procedures as necessary.
- To re-establish employee proficiency.
You do not need to retrain your employees on an annual basis. However, if your employees do not actually use LOTO procedures often, it's a good idea to practice the procedures at least annually.
Retrain employees when work conditions change. Authorized and affected employees must be retrained whenever:
- their job assignments change;
- energy-control procedures change;
- equipment or work processes present new hazards; or
- when they don't follow energy-control procedures.
Other triggers that indicate training may be necessary include:
- periodic inspections reveal that there are deviations in the energy control procedure; or
- the employer believes that there are deviations from, or inadequacies in, the employee's knowledge or use of the energy control procedures.
1910.147(c)(7) Training and Communication
...1910.147(c)(7)(iii) Employee Retraining:
- 1910.147(c)(7)(iii)(A): Retraining must be provided for all authorized and affected employees whenever there is a change in their job assignments, a change in machines, equipment or processes that present a new hazard, or when there is a change in the energy control procedures.
- 1910.147(c)(7)(iii)(B): Additional retraining must also be conducted whenever a periodic inspection under paragraph (c)(6) of this section reveals, or whenever the employer has reason to believe, that there are deviations from or inadequacies in the employee's knowledge or use of the energy control procedures.
- 1910.147(c)(7)(iii)(C): The retraining must reestablish employee proficiency and introduce new or revised control methods and procedures, as necessary.
1910.147(c)(7)(iv): The employer must certify that employee training has been accomplished and is being kept up to date. The certification must contain each employee's name and dates of training.
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
3-3. Authorized and affected employees must be retrained whenever _____.
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