Анализ 4771 нарушений OSHA показал, что причиной штрафов чаще становится отсутствие документации, а не неисправные замки

Lockout/Tagout's Evidence Gap: What 4,771 OSHA Violations Reveal OSHA data shows missing paperwork, not missing locks, drives over 70% of lockout/tagout violations. - By Sam Nugent - Sep 02, 2026 An analysis of 4,771 OSHA lockout/tagout violations from fiscal year 2025 shows employers were cited far less for missing hardware than for missing proof that the right procedure was current, followed, verified, and inspected. Ask most people to picture a lockout/tagout problem and they will picture hardware: a padlock not applied correctly, a tag missing from a valve. OSHA's enforcement data tells a different story. In fiscal year 2025, safety inspectors cited employers for 4,771 lockout/tagout violations under 29 CFR 1910.147, carrying roughly $21.9 million in penalties [1, 2]. Across the full year of violations, almost none were about a missing lock. Nearly all were about missing proof: proof that the right procedure existed, was up to date, was followed by trained workers, and was reviewed on schedule. That gap, between having a program and being able to prove it was followed, is where lockout/tagout compliance is won or lost. Three Paperwork Requirements Caused 71.5% of Violations The 4,771 violations came from 2,636 inspections of 2,563 employers. Each violation is one specific requirement an inspector found unmet, and inspections rarely find just one problem: a site with a missing procedure usually has missing training records and a skipped inspection as well. The data covers both federal OSHA and the 27 states that run their own OSHA-approved programs [2]. (OSHA's well-known Top 10 list, which puts lockout/tagout at number four, counts federal inspections only. Adding the state programs roughly doubles the total [3].) Most of the violations landed in just three areas. Energy-control procedures accounted for 1,491 violations, training for 1,000, and periodic inspection for 920. Together, those three areas made up 71.5% of all lockout/tagout violations for the year [2]. The single most cited requirement was 1910.147(c)(4)(i), which requires employers to develop, document, and use energy-control procedures. It was cited 1,066 times. Second, at 725, was the requirement to inspect each procedure at least once a year. Third, at 525, was the requirement to have an energy-control program at all [2]. Look at what is missing from that list: locks, tags, and isolation devices barely appear. The violations were about the paperwork around energy isolation: the written procedure, the proof that people were trained, and the proof that the procedure was reviewed.