sec.107Isolating, locking-out and tagging plant

sec.107 Isolating, locking-out and tagging plant

A mine’s safety and health management system must provide for the following matters— isolating plant, including effectively isolating plant to control the risk from a release of energy; taking plant out of service; testing plant or its energy source for zero potential; returning plant to service. The site senior executive for a mine that is not required to have a safety and health management system under the Act must ensure the mine has a standard work instruction for the activities mentioned in subsection (1) (a) to (d) . If the safety or health of a person is directly affected by the operation or non-operation of plant, the system or standard work instruction must also provide for locking-out and tagging the plant. (sec.107-ssec.1) A mine’s safety and health management system must provide for the following matters— isolating plant, including effectively isolating plant to control the risk from a release of energy; taking plant out of service; testing plant or its energy source for zero potential; returning plant to service. (sec.107-ssec.2) The site senior executive for a mine that is not required to have a safety and health management system under the Act must ensure the mine has a standard work instruction for the activities mentioned in subsection (1) (a) to (d) . (sec.107-ssec.3) If the safety or health of a person is directly affected by the operation or non-operation of plant, the system or standard work instruction must also provide for locking-out and tagging the plant.

• (a) isolating plant, including effectively isolating plant to control the risk from a release of energy;
• (b) taking plant out of service;
• (c) testing plant or its energy source for zero potential;
• (d) returning plant to service.