Lockout Tagout Course

An employer assigns lockout tagout training so everyone on a plant floor understands why machines get isolated and what the locks and tags on them mean. Fitters and electricians need it, and so do operators, cleaners, storepeople and contractors, because they are the ones who might start a machine someone is working inside.

Yes. It sits on the harmonised work health and safety regime that runs across the Australian jurisdictions, with the New Zealand position alongside it, and the content tracks regulator guidance as that guidance shifts. Your own isolation procedure, permit forms and lock register layer over the top of it.

An organisation that runs plant almost always has a written procedure and a lock register already, and this module is what gets the rest of the workforce reading them the same way. Our guide to WHS asset management compliance covers where the plant and equipment obligations sit.

An employer assigns this as awareness, and it is not the authorisation to apply a personal lock. SafeWork NSW states that a worker is issued a personal lockout device only after theory and practical assessment against defined criteria, on your plant. That assessment is yours to run. We are not an accredited provider and we do not assess competency.

It names no course. It puts the primary duty on the business to eliminate risks so far as is reasonably practicable, and anyone who controls plant has to take reasonable steps so it cannot restart while guarding is off. Training is one of those steps. Your organisation stays responsible for the rest.

Everyone who works on or near plant should take it, because the rule only holds if the whole floor knows it. The people who actually apply isolations need the practical assessment on top, and supervisors who authorise a permit should take the supervisors and managers module as well.

Regulators publish good free guidance, but guidance is not assigned training and leaves you no record. Face-to-face providers run hands-on sessions for a crew, which is the right answer for authorising isolators. This module covers the shared understanding across hundreds of people, tracked against each one.

Budget 15 to 30 minutes. The lockout tagout course holds a learner’s place as they move through it, so it fits into a toolbox slot or the quiet part of a shutdown rather than taking out a morning. The completion lands in the record as soon as they finish.

Your organisation sets the cycle. Annually is the common pattern, with extra rounds after new plant arrives, after the procedure is rewritten, when a contractor crew comes on site, or after any near miss involving an isolation. Regulators expect risk to be looked at again when the work changes, which makes those the right triggers to hang it on.

Sentrient compliance content passes a legal read in both countries before it is released, which is what the legally endorsed mark refers to. The brief for this module was plant-floor awareness, not trade instruction and not isolator authorisation, and the legal read was done against that brief on purpose.

The module is reworked when legislation or regulator guidance moves, and anyone who has not started picks up the revised version without you doing anything. Every completion carries its version number, so a re-issue can be aimed only at the people who sat the older one.

That it stays on. The module is blunt about this because it is where real incidents start. Nobody cuts a lock, nobody assumes it was forgotten, and nobody decides an unnamed tag is abandoned. The learner escalates it, and your procedure says who is permitted to resolve it and how.

Yes. It runs inside Sentrient, or through your own LMS or HRIS, whichever your organisation has already standardised on. Because completions attach to the person and not to the platform, a workforce spread over a plant, a depot and a contractor pool still rolls up into one view.

Target a trade, a crew, a shift, a site or everyone, set a due date, and the prompts go out on their own. Anyone overdue appears on the administrator view, which matters on a site where most of the workforce never opens a work inbox during a shift.

Dated completions held against each learner, so the evidence comes out of the system rather than being rebuilt from sign-on sheets after the fact. The record proves who was briefed and when. It does not prove the isolation itself was done correctly, which is your permit and register trail.

The module changes what people on the floor understand. Our risk management system is the software that holds the plant risk assessments and the controls behind the procedure. One builds the shared rule, the other holds the paperwork, and your organisation decides what follows from either.

Pair it with our electrical safety training and personal protective equipment training courses. Sites with crews coming and going should add contractor safety training, and anyone entering tanks or pits needs confined space awareness training.

Yes. It opens in a current browser on a phone, a tablet or a laptop, which is what makes it workable for a workforce that is never at a desk. Progress is bookmarked as the learner moves through, so being called away costs a minute rather than the whole attempt.

One module covers every site and both countries, with reporting split by plant, crew or entity. Stored energy behaves the same in Dandenong as it does in Hamilton, and so does the rule about whose lock it is. What differs locally is your own procedure and permit paperwork.

Completion data only. There is no health declaration and no field asking for anything the record does not need. You keep custody of what is collected, and the Australian Privacy Principles put the accountability for that data with your organisation.

A lockout tagout training course that has to land on a whole site and stand up afterwards is a different job from booking a trainer for the maintenance crew, and Sentrient is built for the first one. It ships inside a compliance platform and is administered the same way as the rest of our workplace compliance courses.

Any employer running plant with moving parts or stored energy, which puts manufacturing, food production, warehousing, waste, utilities, mining services and facilities management first in line. See how Pental handles compliance across a manufacturing workforce.

Pricing follows your headcount and the modules you choose, quoted per user, which is why no rate card is published and no single seats are sold. Ask on the demo call and the number covers the whole library, not this module in isolation.

Book the free 20-minute demo and we walk the module from the first isolation screen through to what lands in the record, including how it reaches contractors and shift crews. The rest of the library fits into the same call, and nothing is committed by looking.