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6 Lockout/Tagout Departments Each university department is responsible for evaluating areas under its administrative control, to determine whether there are processes or equipment to which the Lockout/Tagout Program would apply. Departments that find LOTO requirements applicable are responsible for the adoption and implementation of the contents of the ISU Lockout/Tagout Manual, and for providing all necessary equipment to control hazardous energies. Managers and Supervisors Managers and supervisors are responsible for: designation of authorized employees, ensuring that employees are properly trained, maintenance of program records, and completion of annual program reviews. Employees Employees are responsible for observing all practices and procedures contained in the ISU Lockout/Tagout Program, for attending designated training and for reporting hazardous or unsafe conditions to their supervisors and/or EH&S . Environmental Health and Safety EH&S has created the ISU Lockout/Tagout Program and will assist individual departments in the implementation of manual requirements. Scope The scope of this program is to prevent injury from electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, chemical, thermal, or other hazardous sources in machines and equipment. Potential hazardous energy sources must be identified, isolated, and locked and/or tagged out before starting a service/maintenance task. Typical tasks requiring LOTO procedures include • a task requiring an employee to enter a machine's point of operation or any associated danger zone • repairing electrical circuits • cleaning, repairing, and maintaining machinery with moving parts • cleaning jammed mechanisms • removing or bypassing a guard or other safety device