Lockout/Tagout for Authorized Employees (Cal/OSHA) Online Training

This online course is the classroom part of lockout/tagout training for authorized employees in California. It follows the Cal/OSHA control of hazardous energy rule in the General Industry Safety Orders (8 CCR 3314) and the Low-Voltage Electrical Safety Orders (8 CCR 2320.1 and 2320.3 to 2320.6). It is written for workers whom their employer has authorized to lock out or tag out machines and equipment to service or maintain them.

What you learn

• Hazardous energy: off is not locked out
• Who is authorized, and when lockout applies
• The written procedure: your employer's, not ours
• Locks, blocks and tags
• Shutting down, isolating and applying locks
• Testing that the energy is controlled
• Removing locks and restarting
• Crews, shift changes and outside contractors
• Training, retraining and the yearly inspection
• A final lesson listing what to review with your supervisor at your company

How it works

• You take the course online, at your own pace, on a phone or a computer.
• The final exam opens after you finish the lessons.
• Each topic lesson ends with practice questions that do not count toward your score.
• The final exam has 25 questions drawn at random. You need 80 percent to pass, and you get 3 attempts.
• When you pass the final exam, you finish the online classroom part. M Squared Safety Solutions, Inc. issues your certificate of completion after it reviews your employer's signed hands-on checklist. The certificate expires 1 year after it is issued.
• This course is also available in Spanish: Bloqueo y etiquetado para empleados autorizados (Cal/OSHA): capacitación en línea.

The hands-on part, at your workplace

• This product is the online classroom part. Your employer evaluates your hands-on skills at your workplace with the M Squared hands-on checklist: download the checklist (PDF).
• Your employer emails the signed checklist to matt@msquaredsafety.com and monica@msquaredsafety.com. You upload nothing.
• M Squared reviews the checklist, then marks the course complete and your certificate is issued.

Questions

Call an M Squared trainer at 949-954-6581, Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM Pacific time. A trainer answers in English and Spanish.

Your employer's part

This online course does not replace the training your employer must give on your own job: site-specific training, and hands-on practice and evaluation where the rule requires them.

What this course does not do

Completing this course does not make you an authorized employee. Your employer decides who is authorized and which machines each person may service, and your employer's written procedure is the procedure you follow. M Squared does not write your employer's procedure. This is the Cal/OSHA course, and federal OSHA's rules differ in several places. A federal OSHA version of this course is sold separately. If you work in another state, that state may have different or more stringent rules.