Lockout Tagout

[wylk]

I see a lockout product in a 1985 Master Lock catalog. Not much help, but it's another data point.

[Pschiffe]

I see a lockout product in a 1985 Master Lock catalog. Not much help, but it's another data point.

There is a brief article, "Safety Lockout/Tagout Products" in The National Locksmith®, January 2016. The president of a locksmith company is quoted therein as saying, we first began offering padlocks for Safety Lockout in the mid-2000s. The article also states that the business first opened in 1971!

Pete Schifferli

[Huw Eastwood]

Arno it might be worth tracing back brochures and catalogues from German manufacturers like Abus and especially Burg Wachter, as they produced incredibly diverse padlock ranges for this sort of purpose with colour coding, tags, and extended shackles etc.

I can remember seeing padlocks on lock-out switches on site plant and machinery in the early to mid 1980s so they were definitely in use back then.

[lockworksokc]

I do not remember when colored "lockout" padlocks came about but we had "multi hasps" in the 80's.

[Parautoptic]

Seton were selling lockout tags and multi padlock hasps in 1985. That was the first time I had noticed that sort of thing.


Phil

Arno it might be worth tracing back brochures and catalogues from German manufacturers like Abus and especially Burg Wachter, as they produced incredibly diverse padlock ranges for this sort of purpose with colour coding, tags, and extended shackles etc.

I can remember seeing padlocks on lock-out switches on site plant and machinery in the early to mid 1980s so they were definitely in use back then.

[lockworksokc]

And it was American that came out with the first colored padlocks, in aluminum.