How Effective Is Your Lockout Tagout System?
Complete your Annual Review to assess the effectiveness of your Energy Control Programme, identify gaps and establish priorities for improvement.
How Effective Is Your Lockout Tagout System?
Complete your Annual Review to assess the effectiveness of your Energy Control Programme, identify gaps and establish priorities for improvement.
How it works
Work through a structured series of questions covering the key elements of your Lockout Tagout system. For each question, consider your current arrangements and the evidence available within your workplace.
Your responses are assessed across the nine critical elements. Once complete, you’ll receive your results showing where your programme is performing well and where improvement should be prioritised.
What do the Audit Standards Cover?
The audit standards cover the following critical elements:
1. Programme Governance & Management
Ensure the LOTO program is formally structured, endorsed, and communicated, with clear roles and responsibilities for safe energy control.
2. Risk Assessment & Energy Identification
Identify and assess all hazardous energy sources to guide safe isolation and lockout procedures.
3. Written Procedures & Documentation
Maintain clear, standardised procedures to guide safe lockout/tagout operations and ensure consistency across all equipment and tasks.
4. Authorisation & Trainining
Ensure workers are trained, competent, and authorised to perform their specific LOTO responsibilities safely and effectively.
5. Lockout/Tagout Hardware & Tools
Ensure that adequate, reliable, and standardised hardware is available and properly used to safely isolate energy sources.
6. Implementation & Operational Practices
Verify that LOTO procedures are consistently applied during daily operations to ensure equipment is isolated and work can be safely performed.
7. Monitoring, Auditing & Continuous Improvement
Regular monitoring, auditing, and review of LOTO practices ensure the program remains effective, compliant and continuously improves over time.
8. Documentation & Record Keeping
Accurate, complete, and accessible records of all LOTO activities are critical for accountability, auditing, and demonstrating compliance with best practices and standards.
9. Programme Culture & Awareness
A world-class LOTO system relies on more than procedures and hardware — it requires strong leadership commitment, workforce engagement, and ongoing awareness to ensure consistent safe behaviours.
About the Annual Review
1. Assess Your Programme
The LockoutHQ Annual Review assesses your Energy Control Programme across nine critical elements of effective Lockout Tagout. Your results highlight strengths, identify gaps and show where improvement should be prioritised.
2. Aligned with Best Practice
The review criteria are aligned with internationally recognised hazardous energy control standards and best practices, including ANSI/ASSP Z244.1, CSA Z460, OSHA 29 CFR 1910.147, ISO 14118 and AS/NZS 4024.
3. Review Annually
Complete the review annually and following significant changes, to help ensure your Energy Control Programme remains effective, relevant and responsive to changing operational risks.
Driving Performance Through Audit Insights
1. Assess
Your Energy Control Programme is assessed across nine critical elements of effective Lockout Tagout.
2. Understand
Your results provide clear visibility of programme strengths, gaps and areas requiring improvement.
3. Improve
Use your results to prioritise corrective actions, track progress and strengthen your programme over time.
Lockout Tagout Programme
Maturity Score
How Your Score Is Determined
Your assessment results are mapped across nine critical performance areas to evaluate the maturity, consistency and effectiveness of your Lockout Tagout Programme and identify opportunities for improvement.
Important
Your maturity score and radar graph do not determine legal or regulatory compliance.
They are intended as developmental tools to help identify strengths, highlight gaps and guide continuous improvement against recognised good practice — not as compliance certification.
