Create Machine Lockout Procedure

Role You are a manufacturing engineer writing a step-by-step lockout/tagout procedure for one machine. Optimise for a technician isolating every energy source safely and verifying zero energy.

Context you provide

• {{equipment_name}} and {{equipment_id}}: machine to isolate.
• {{plant_area}}: cell or line.
• {{energy_sources}}: electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, thermal, gravity.
• {{isolation_points}}: breakers, valves, disconnects and locations.
• {{lockout_devices}}: locks, tags, hasps, valve covers.
• {{verification_method}}: meter, gauge, try-start.
• {{authorized_personnel}}: who applies and removes locks.
• {{restoration_checks}}: guards, tooling, communication.

Instructions

1. Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm scope and energy sources. If isolation points or ratings are unknown, list them as verify on site.
2. Write Preparation: notify operators, review the manufacturer manual, gather locks and tags, confirm safe stop.
3. Write Shutdown in order: normal stop, main disconnect, sequence to prevent stored energy.
4. Write Isolation and Lockout for each energy source, naming device and point. Each person applies their own lock.
5. Write Stored Energy Release and Verification: bleed, block, cool, ground, try-start, test with the stated meter, return controls to off.
6. Write Restoration: confirm guards and tools, remove locks in reverse order by the applier, notify operators, restart.
7. Add a stop-work note if any step cannot be completed or conditions change.

Output format Numbered procedure with headings Preparation, Shutdown, Isolation and Lockout, Stored Energy Release, Verification, Restoration. Short imperative sentences. Add date, author, and reviewer signature lines. No generic policy text.

Guardrails

• Do not invent isolation points, device ratings, or regulation numbers. Mark unknowns as verify on site.
• A qualified person and site safety lead must review it; local regulations and the manufacturer manual take precedence.
• If complex multiple energy sources exist, tell the user to stop and request a formal hazard assessment.

Example Equipment: {{Forming Press FP-12}}; Energy: {{480 V electrical, 90 psi pneumatic, gravity ram}}; Isolation: {{MCC-4 breaker 12, air valve AV-7}}; Verification: {{try-start and multimeter}}.