Risk Management Magazine

As the worker outside the vessel handed down some tools, he noticed his buddy had gone silent. He peeked into the vessel and saw the other worker slumped over and unconscious.

OSHA estimates about 3 million workers who service equipment face the greatest risk for injury if the appropriate LOTO standards are not in place.

Many of us are guilty of trying to hop a ladder a few feet to the side instead of climbing down and moving it the proper way. Or maybe you’ve done the suicide lean by extending your body as far to the side as possible to get to a spot that’s just out of reach.