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Take 5 for Safety

Recent Injuries Conduct of Operations – Lockout/Tagout Photo of the Week Collider-Accelerator Department 2-15-11. Take 5 for Safety. Recent Injury. A technician was driving from B911 to a RHIC jobsite The day's weather was icy rain with outdoor temperatures decreasing during the day

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Take 5 for Safety

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  1. Recent Injuries Conduct of Operations – Lockout/Tagout Photo of the Week Collider-Accelerator Department 2-15-11 Take 5 for Safety

  2. Recent Injury • A technician was driving from B911 to a RHIC jobsite • The day's weather was icy rain with outdoor temperatures decreasing during the day • He wore his seatbelt and investigation by BNL Safety Engineering showed that he was doing only ~10 mph • When car rolled over and he opened his seatbelt he fell upside down and injured his neck

  3. Recent Injury • A technician was inspecting the idler wheel of a pelletron chain • When he removed his hand he cut it on the edge of the contact ring [the shinny steel ring in photos] • He has cuts on 3 fingers one of which involves the nail bed, another a knuckle and the third a small cut on the finger • The top photo shows the pelletron pulley in the dome of tandem 7 that was involved and the second shows the idler wheel he  was inspecting at the time • The contact ring is fully exposed the edge becomes quite sharp during operation

  4. Conduct of Operations LOTO • LOTO procedures in Conduct of Operations facilities must apply to situations requiring special control measures • Measures to protect the individual worker must be integrated with the operation of larger safety systems designed to protect the public, the environment, and the facility • Protecting personnel from injuries resulting from unexpected operation or energizing of equipment • Preventing the unexpected or inadvertent loss of essential safety systems and operating systems (operations LOTO in SBMS) • Operators must possess specialized knowledge operators must possess regarding system functions and interactions and are the only ones qualified to manipulate facility controls for any purpose, including lockout/tagout

  5. Examples of C of O LOTO at C-AD • Restricted Access LOTO procedures for AGS • Controlled Access LOTO procedures for AGS • Radiation Safety LOTO (RS LOTO) procedures • Cryogenic operations LOTO procedures • Accountable key systems • Do Not Operate and Caution Tag procedures

  6. Photo of the Week – LOTO Oxymoron at North Carolina Gas Station

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