Lockout Tagout Training in Alberta: Online LOTO Awareness Course
Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) Awareness, $24.99 CAD
A 30 to 40 minute online course that covers the hazardous-energy control concepts that Alberta OHS Code, Part 15 (sections 212 to 215.5) expects Alberta workers to understand: energy types, isolation devices, locks and tags, verification of zero energy, group lockout and safe re-energizing.
- Instant access after checkout, self-paced, works on any device
- Developed by CRSP-certified safety professionals
- Printable certificate of completion with verification code
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Awareness level: pairs with your employer's site-specific procedure
What this course is (and is not)
It is awareness-level training: the shared knowledge every worker, supervisor and contractor needs before they are shown the lockout procedure for a specific machine. It covers the concepts in Alberta OHS Code, Part 15 (sections 212 to 215.5) in plain language, with quizzes and a final assessment.
It is not a site-specific lockout procedure, an equipment-specific authorization, or a licence. Alberta does not issue a lockout licence. We do not claim the course meets or satisfies the regulation on its own; your employer pairs it with written procedures, equipment walk-throughs and supervision.
Buying for a crew? Corporate accounts let you assign seats and track completions. Need help writing the site-specific procedure the regulation requires? Talk to a consultant.
What Alberta Requires for Lockout
Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Code (Alberta Regulation 191/2021), Part 15, Managing the Control of Hazardous Energy, sections 212 to 215.5, in plain language.
In Alberta, hazardous energy control is governed by Part 15 of the Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Code (Alberta Regulation 191/2021), titled Managing the Control of Hazardous Energy. The Part runs from section 212 to section 215.5 and applies whenever machinery, equipment or powered mobile equipment is serviced, repaired, tested, adjusted or inspected.
Isolation before work (section 212). The employer must ensure no worker starts that work until the equipment has come to a complete stop and every source of hazardous energy at the work location is isolated by an energy-isolating device and secured. The employer designates which securing method applies: individual worker locks (section 214), a group procedure (section 215) or complex group control (section 215.1). If the manufacturer requires the equipment to stay running, or it is not reasonably practicable to stop it, the employer must develop and implement written procedures and controls for doing the work safely (section 212(2)). Piping and process systems carrying harmful substances under pressure have their own isolation rules in sections 212(3) and 215.4.
Verification (section 213). A worker must not begin work until the isolation steps are complete, the equipment has been tested to confirm it is inoperative, and the worker is personally satisfied that it is inoperative. This is the zero-energy check that the course walks through step by step.
Personal locks and identification (section 214). Each worker at each location applies a personal lock. The employer must ensure each lock has a unique identifier and that the name of the worker assigned to the lock is available. Section 214 also covers what happens when a worker is reassigned before the work is finished.
Group and remote systems (sections 215 to 215.2). Where many workers or many isolating devices are involved, a written group procedure is used, with documented verification that all sources are isolated. Section 215.2 addresses remotely controlled systems.
Returning to operation (section 215.3). Only the person who placed a personal lock may normally remove it, and the Code sets the conditions for restoring energy.
The Code is enforced by Alberta Occupational Health and Safety. Workplace injury insurance is administered separately by WCB-Alberta.
This summary is for awareness only and is not legal advice. Always read the current consolidated text on the official site linked above.
Who Needs Lockout Tagout Training in Alberta
Anyone who services, cleans, adjusts, repairs or works near machinery and equipment with stored or live energy, and the supervisors who assign that work.
- Oil and gas, oilfield services and gas plants
- Oil sands mining and processing
- Manufacturing and fabrication shops
- Agriculture and agri-food processing
- Forestry, sawmills and pulp mills
- Construction and heavy civil contractors
- Utilities, water and wastewater operations
- Warehousing and distribution centres with powered equipment
Also relevant for joint health and safety committee members, new and young workers, and contractors bidding on Alberta industrial work who need documented awareness training before mobilizing.
Lockout Tagout Training Alberta FAQs
Is lockout tagout training mandatory in Alberta?
Part 15 of the Alberta OHS Code does not name a specific course or certificate. It requires the employer to designate the securing method for each job (section 212(1)), to develop written procedures where equipment cannot be fully stopped (section 212(2)), and it requires every worker to verify isolation before starting work (section 213). Employers meet that expectation by combining general hazardous-energy awareness training with instruction on their own written procedures. This course supplies the awareness half.
Does this course give me an Alberta lockout certification?
There is no provincial lockout licence or ticket in Alberta. This is an awareness-level course. On passing the final quiz you receive a printable certificate of completion that records your name, the course, the date and a verification code. Your employer still provides site-specific procedures and equipment-specific instruction.
Who can remove a lock in Alberta if the worker who applied it is not available?
Section 215.3 of the OHS Code restricts who may remove a personal lock or other securing device and sets the conditions for returning equipment to operation. In practice, the lock is removed only by the worker who placed it, or under the employer's documented procedure after reasonable attempts to reach that worker. The course covers the general principle; your employer's Part 15 procedure sets the exact steps.
Does Alberta require tags as well as locks?
Section 214 requires that each personal lock has a unique identifier and that the name of the worker assigned to it is known. Many Alberta employers meet this with an engraved lock plus a tag, and tags remain the standard way to communicate who locked out what and why. The course explains the roles of locks, tags and other securing devices.
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