Subcontractors, Group LOTO, Shift Change
Working With Contractors
Whenever contractors and other outside servicing personnel perform tasks covered by the Lockout/Tagout standard, they must adhere to all the OSHA standard's requirements.
The host employer and the contractor or outside employer must inform each other of the other's respective lockout or tagout procedures.
The host employer and the contractor must understand one another's lockout and tagout procedures. Make sure you review the contractor's energy-control program before the contractor does any on-site work. The host employer's workers must also understand and comply with the contractor's energy-control program.
Note: If you hire a one-person "independent contractor," he or she may claim they do not have to comply with State or Federal OSHA standards. They may be right, if they are not required to participate in a workers' compensation system. However, that does not relieve you, as the general or host employer, from legal liability. Make sure you require all contractors, no matter what their business status is, to adhere, at a minimum, to OSHA standards. If the contractor puts up a fuss, I personally would not do business with the contractor.
If the sub-contractor is using their own LOTO procedures, the on-site general contractor or host employer must ensure that his or her workers understand and comply with the restrictions and prohibitions of the contractor or outside employer's energy control program.
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8-1. Whenever contractors and other outside service personnel perform tasks covered by the lockout/tagout standard, when do they have to adhere to OSHA standard's requirements?
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