IDEAL Industries 44-979 Job Site Lockout/Tagout Kit

The padlocks in the IDEAL Industries 44-979 job site kit are keyed alike, so one key opens every lock in the kit. That is set up for a single worker applying several locks across an energized job, not for a crew where each person needs their own unique key. If your safety program requires each employee to hold a key that no one else can duplicate access with, you need individually keyed padlocks instead of a keyed-alike set.

It is built around one worker. IDEAL describes the 44-979 as a kit for an individual worker, with the padlocks keyed alike for that person's convenience. For a multi-trade shutdown where several people lock the same disconnect, buy one kit per worker (or add a group lockout hasp) rather than splitting a single kit among the crew.

The 44-979 is a assembled job site kit containing lockout/tagout devices, danger tags, and keyed-alike padlocks, selected to cover most common job site applications. It is sold as a complete kit under a single part number rather than as loose components.

Switch and breaker lockout is what this kit is for. The 44-979 is catalogued by IDEAL as a switch lockout product and ships with a range of lockout/tagout devices intended to cover most applications on a job site, so for ordinary single-pole and multi-pole breaker and toggle switch work you should not need to buy a separate device. Odd gear, large bus plugs, valves or cable-style applications may still need a purpose-built device added.

Order it as IDEAL Industries 44-979. That single MPN covers the complete job site lockout/tagout kit, so there are no size, color or configuration options to specify on the purchase order.

It suits per-technician issue rather than facility standardization on a shared key system. Because the padlocks inside each 44-979 are keyed alike to each other, issuing multiple kits gives you groups of locks whose keying relationship across kits is not something you can control from the part number. For a facility program, assign one kit per named technician and track it to that person.