To develop an effective employer review program focused on energy-based safety, regulatory compliance, and hazard control measures, consider the following key areas:

1. Hazardous Energy Control:

• Ensure machinery, equipment, or powered mobile equipment is properly isolated before servicing, repairing, testing, adjusting, or inspecting. This includes de-energizing and securing energy-isolating devices. [1] [5]

2. Verification of Isolation:

• Workers must verify that machinery, equipment, or powered mobile equipment is inoperative or otherwise made safe before performing any work that requires hazardous energy control. [1]

3. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE):

• Ensure workers use appropriate PPE, conduct hazard assessments to determine necessary PPE, and combine PPE with other control measures for comprehensive protection. [3]

4. Confined Spaces:

• Implement an entry permit system for confined spaces, ensure adequate precautions are in place to protect workers from hazards like drowning, engulfment, or entrapment, and control hazardous energy within restricted spaces. [2] [7]

5. Piping and Pipelines:

• When servicing or repairing piping or pipelines containing substances under pressure, ensure flow is stopped or regulated to a safe level, and the work location is isolated and secured. [6]

6. Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Energy:

• Provide site-specific orientation that encompasses site-specific hazards, work procedures, hazard controls, required PPE, emergency response plans, processes for reporting hazards, and processes for addressing undue hazards, work refusals, and resolution. [4]

7. Noise Exposure:

• Implement measures to reduce noise, assess worker exposure to noise, and provide hearing protection. [5] [5] [5]

8. Lifting and Handling Loads:

• Before a worker manually handles a load that could cause injury, perform a hazard assessment considering the load's weight, size, shape, frequency of movement, and manner of movement. [10]

9. Explosives Safety:

• Ensure explosives are not primed in locations that create ignition risks, limit the quantity of primed explosives, and remove unused explosives to a safe distance before detonation. [8]

10. Autonomous Equipment:

• Ensure autonomous and semi-autonomous powered mobile equipment meets the requirements of ISO 17757:2019, Earth-moving machinery and mining - Autonomous and semi-autonomous machine system safety. [9]