The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) decision to review lockout/tagout regulations comes at the same time the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) nears issuing a revised voluntary consensus standard in 2016.
 
The hope is that the changes to the lockout/tagout rule will give commercial laundry plant managers more options. Instead of shutting down entire processing lines by cutting off a machine’s power source, an equivalent level of safety is possible by controlling power for the section of machine that needs to be stopped while tasks are performed.
 
If enacted, the potential rule ...