Kokosing Materials Mobilizes Their LOTO
After being founded by a humble farm boy
named William “Bill” Burgett, Kokosing has
grown into an industry leader that employs
over 3,000 people and generates more than
$1 billion in annual revenue.
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“We recognize that safety is an ever-evolving journey and to that end, we have adopted a Safety 24/7 culture. Every year our incident rate goal is zero. We pride ourselves in sending every employee home the same way they arrived to work.”
Lee Schloss
President
The mission
Kokosing takes safety very seriously, and feels that, “One incident is too
many.”
So, after they had a lockout/tagout related injury, they saw an immediate need to improve.
They needed a simple and scalable lockout/tagout tool that could be accessible for their employees across 20 different job sites.
Kokosing materials had an extensive LOTO library, but it was only accessible from one place: Their HSE Director’s computer. Chuck Mull was a “one-man show” when it came to safety and LOTO at the time.
The solution
Field iD made Kokosing’s 900+ LOTO documents / procedures accessible to 35 frontline users, across 20 different job sites.
Crucial procedures were no longer limited to a single computer. They were now on everyone’s smartphones and in their pockets.
Field iD also made it easier to train new employees by ensuring that all employees have access to the proper LOTO procedures, whether it’s their 1st week on the
job or their 50th. Kokosing is also able to make quick and easy updates, such as changes to the way they put a new air cylinder on, or a different way
of locking a retainer ball valve out.
“People now call me and ask, ‘Hey we switched this out, can you change the procedure for me?’ And they get that updated procedure in their hands that same day.”
Chuck Mull
HSE Director