Lockout/Tagout Coordinator

Lockout/Tagout Coordinator

  Not Disclosed

  Merrill Road, ME

  6.0 Months

  Not Disclosed

  Not Disclosed

  Energy & Utility

Job Description

Description:

Lockout/Tagout Coordinator

Experience: Minimum 5-7 year of experience performing Lockout/Tagout Coordinator related tasks. This person will need to be able to read and interpret electrical drawings, schematics, and control wiring. A former Journeyman Electrician is desirable, but not a must.

Education: Minimum Technical Degree in Electrical field with more than 5 years of experience.

An electrically competent HVDC employee or contractor who is responsible for complex and or multi-craft LOTO on HVDC project sites. Candidate shall attend project meetings and ensure all the client personnel are briefed on the LOTO plan pre-shift and participate in walking down the permit to work. The LOTO Coordinator is the ultimate authority on site regarding hazardous energy control and has the authority to stop work at any moment until it is deemed safe to proceed.

a) Competencies of an LOTO Coordinator:

LOTO Coordinator shall be trained in the use, application and removal of locks and tags and the hazards as-sociated with the work including the required PPE to be considered during the Lockout/Tagout application.
An understanding of the construction and operation of electrical equipment (i.e., how to
determine what is and what can become energized), the hazards involved and how personnel can be protected from the haz-ards.
Fundamental knowledge of the appropriate protection boundaries (shock and arc-flash) and the proper PPE for entering these boundaries.
Ability to interpret electrical drawings, single and three-line diagrams, control, and wiring, and layout dia-grams, and schematics.
Understand the requirements and the processes for isolation and lockout/tagout and elements of the permit to work.
Understand the requirements for placing electrical equipment in an electrically safe work condition, the need for verifying the absence of voltage, and any additional requirements in accordance with HE 7 Steps’ pro-cess.
An understanding of the requirement to ensure test equipment, including detection devices are functionally operational prior to and immediately after verifying the absence of voltage via Live Dead Live and the im-portance of testing before touching.

b) LOTO Coordinator Tasks:

Analyze risks for work on requested activity on the Permit to work, make the clear written LOTO plan / check list together with PICW and Person in Control of the Electrical Installation using the relative Single Line Dia-gram.
Identify the equipment that shall be removed from service for maintenance or other purposes.
Apply Equipment Locks to energy isolation devices to prevent accidental or unauthorized operation as a part of Group LOTO. The keys to the equipment locks shall then be placed on the Group Lock Box. The LOTO Coordinator shall then apply his or her personal lock on the group lock
box (the LOTO Coordinator’s lock shall be the first lock on and the last lock off, which ensures work- party control.
When two or more teams need access to the equipment, authorized employees from both teams shall place locks and tags on the group lock box. The LOTO plan shall then be updated accordingly.
In case the fuses must be removed from their positions, store them into the locked Fuse cabinet and apply the “Do Not Operate” tags on the fuse boxes. Update the LOTO Plan accordingly.
Ensure together with PICW that all sources of power have been identified, locked and tagged out absence of the voltage shall the be verified prior to commencing work (NOTE: all members of the working party reserve the right to witness the verification of the absence of voltage and to perform the verification when request-ed).
Set up together with PICW the safe work area by applying barriers with suitable notices with warning signs (Danger-Electrical Testing No Unauthorized Persons). The adjacent energized areas must be clearly marked to avoid any unwanted contact with the energized equipment.
Ensure that temporary protective ground/earthing devices are applied for ?1kV equipment and for
=1kV equipment when warranted.
Participating in walking down the PTW with the PICW and the working party as a part of the pre-job briefing.
When the job is completed, ensure locks and tags are removed and stored back in the LOTO Board and fuses are re-installed and notify all affected personnel.
Inspect work area with PICW to ensure that nonessential items have been removed, employees have been safely removed, and temporary protective grounds/earths or spring tension blocks are removed. The equip-ment can now be energized and Permit to Work closed.
The LOCK NUMBER Directory shall be updated regarding the executed LOTO Plan, and the plan shall be safely stored in the binder and/or electronically in the job file.


c) Preparations:

Preparing Equipment LOTO Directory. The LOTO Directory shall contain a list of electrical equipment with all en-ergy isolation devices. (Disconnect Switches, MCBs, MCCBs, Fuses, etc.) with their status: Unlocked, Open locked and tagged out, not locked – spare, or Fuse removed, bagged, and tagged out. It shall contain LOTO date and name of the Authorized Person for each energy isolation device, MCB, MCCB, Fuse, etc.).
Preparing the list of LOTO devices, which must be sufficient for Locking C Tagging all lockable energy isola-tion devices, MCBs, MCCBs, etc.
Ordering LOTO equipment according to the Site Purchasing Standard.
Preparing the group LOTO box(es) and LOTO board(s) for storing equipment locks, tags, and other LOTO de-vices.
Preparing the lockable LOTO panel for keeping and organizing the removed fuses.

Preparing Warning signs for entire site.
Preparing and organizing all Site Temporary Earthing Devices.
Padlock numbering (each lock shall have its number, and one key only) and organizing The LOTO Board.

d) On Site Equipment Energizing:

Lock C tag all energy isolation devices (disconnect switches, MCBs and MCCBs) on AC and DC Equipment be-fore the start of installation work. Place the corresponding key in the Group Lock Box.
Safely remove all fuses on AC and DC equipment, secure them in a lockout bag with an equipment lock, and place the key in the group lock box prior to the start of installation work.
Apply Temporary Protective Grounds (TPG) (Earthing Devices) on all incoming MV and applicable LV equip-ment, place an equipment lock on the group lock box, and secure the key to the TPG conductor.
Coordinate with PICW and Site Person in Control of the Electrical Installation for all switching actions in any en-ergizing process during the commissioning; prepare the Energizing procedure.
Remove the TPG (temporary earthing devices) from the circuits planned to be energized and update the Lock Number Directory.
Remove locks and tags from the energy isolation devices according to Energizing procedure and update the LOTO Directory.
Apply the “EQUIPMENT ENERGIZED” signs on the panels which are planned to be energized. Signs shall in-clude “Danger - Equipment Energized” Shock and Arc-flash Hazard, Contact LOTO Coordinator’s Name, Com-pany Name, and Mobile Phone Number.
Liaise with the Energizing team during the energizing process.
Update the SLD status of energized circuits with red markers. (SLD is normally placed on the wall close to switch boards and group lock box(es).

e) Energized Site:

The client’s standard of work on site is explicitly on de-energized equipment that has been put in an elec-trically safe working condition. The demarcation of the safe work area around the equipment to be worked on and/or tested shall be carried out while the equipment is deenergized.

NOTE: Adjacent electrical equipment shall always be considered energized and labeled accordingly.
The work on site shall always be under the control of a Person in Charge of Work (PICW) and candidate shall take responsibility for the electrical safety matters and particularly while setting up a safe working area in accord-ance with the 7 Steps principles. The PICW and the LOTO COORDINATOR shall ensure that the electrical equipment is protected against accidental or unauthorized operation via LOTO and applying temporary protec-tive grounding/earthing when required.
Together they shall also set the safe work area by applying barriers with suitable notices with warning signs (Danger-Electrical Testing No Unauthorized Persons). The adjacent energized areas must be clearly marked to avoid inadvertent contact with the energized equipment. If necessary, temporary earthing devices must be ap-plied.

NOTE: When electrical testing requires the suspension of LOTO including the removal of temporary pro-tective grounding/earthing, then the Permit to Work shall be suspended and a client Permit to Test shall be initiated by the PICW in consultation with the LOTO Coordinator.
When testing has concluded and further installation, servicing, or maintenance activities need to continue, then the LOTO procedure shall be followed and the permit to work reinstated prior to proceeding with the work.