So it certifies nothing. 29 CFR 1910.147(c)(6) does not just ask for an annual look at your lockout procedures — it asks for one carried out by an authorized employee other than the ones using that procedure, written up naming the machine, the date, the employees included and who performed it. A paper log cannot tell you when the inspector's own name is on the procedure he inspected. This can.
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Every energy-control procedure carries its own twelve-month clock — the pumping unit, the compressor skid, the heater treater, each one separately. Bands run from never inspected through overdue to current, so a procedure written two years ago and never looked at since cannot hide in a folder.
(c)(6)(i)(A) requires an authorized employee other than those using the procedure being inspected. List who uses each procedure once, and a self-inspection is caught the moment it is entered — including where the inspector signed himself into his own review.
(c)(6)(ii) names four things the written certification must identify: the machine, the date, the employees included, and who performed it. A record missing one of them is kept — and banded as an incomplete certification, not quietly counted as done.
Name an inspector who appears on that procedure's own list of authorized employees, and the record is kept exactly as entered — but the procedure does not go green. It bands as certification not valid, because §1910.147(c)(6)(i)(A) requires an authorized employee other than the ones using the procedure being inspected.
The check runs both ways. If the inspector is not on the procedure's list but is named among the employees whose responsibilities were reviewed at that inspection, it is still a self-inspection, and it is still caught. Case and punctuation differences do not get past it: "R. Alvarez", "r alvarez" and "R Alvarez" are one man.
When an inspection finds a deviation or an inadequacy in the procedure, that finding stays open on the register until a correction is recorded, dated on or after the inspection that found it. Running another inspection next year and ticking "no deviations" does not retire it — the app reads the most recent inspection that found something, not the most recent inspection.
This axis is tracked separately from the clock, so a procedure inspected perfectly on time can still be sitting on an open deviation — and it stays visible on the card even when a worse band wins the row.
Where lockout is used, (c)(6)(i)(C) requires the inspector to review each authorized employee's responsibilities under the procedure. Where tagout is used, (c)(6)(i)(D) extends that review to affected employees as well.
Mark a procedure as tagout and the affected-employee field appears on the inspection form and becomes a required element of that certification. Leave it empty and the certification is short one thing the rule names — which is exactly the gap a form that treats both methods identically will never show you.
Every procedure sits in exactly one band — the worst one that applies — so the register reads from the top down. A procedure with nothing recorded against it is not treated as clean; it lands in the emptiest band of all, because no evidence is worse than bad evidence.
The equipment the procedure applies to, its asset tag, its type and where it sits — the first thing (c)(6)(ii) asks the certification to identify.
Electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, chemical, thermal, stored or gravity — plus anything else typed in free.
Set per procedure, because it changes who has to be included in the review.
The authorized employees on that procedure — the people reviewed at the inspection, and the people who cannot be its inspector.
Date, who performed it, everyone included in the review, individually or as a group meeting, and what was found.
A dated certification page per procedure, laid out in the order the rule names the elements, with anything missing marked plainly.
Every band tile on the dashboard opens the register filtered to exactly those procedures. There is no counted band you cannot act on — a number you can see but not drill into is a number that gets ignored.
It does not carry out an inspection. It does not write your energy-control procedures or judge whether one is adequate. It does not replace 29 CFR 1910.147, your employer's programme, or the authorized employee who has to walk the machine. It records which procedures exist, when each was inspected and by whom, who was included in the review, what was found, and which certifications are missing something the rule names.
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