Matthew Nugent is a chemical engineer and co-founder of Zentri, a digital lockout/tagout platform, and The Lock Box. He works with manufacturing safety teams across the U.S. and Europe on LOTO compliance and energy isolation programs.
Procedural changes can alter the isolation requirements for a machine, but maintenance work orders rarely trigger a corresponding update to the LOTO procedure. Over time, the gap between what the procedure says and what the machine actually requires grows.
