Episode 3 — Apply OT Jobsite Safety: Hazards, PPE, and Lockout/Tagout Done Right

This episode focuses on jobsite safety as a foundational OT security competency, because unsafe work can turn a minor cyber issue into an injury, outage, or environmental incident. You’ll define common OT hazards such as electrical energy, stored mechanical energy, pressure, heat, chemicals, and moving equipment, and you’ll connect those hazards to the controls you’re expected to recognize on the exam. We walk through the logic of PPE selection, why “more PPE” is not always safer, and how site rules, permits, and task risk drive what you wear and when. Lockout/tagout is covered as a disciplined process rather than a buzzword, including isolation, verification, group lock considerations, and how poor LOTO habits create both safety and security failures. You’ll also learn how to communicate safety constraints during troubleshooting so you can pause unsafe actions, escalate correctly, and still move the work forward without improvising. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.