Some companies develop an elaborate generic energy control procedure and supplement the generic procedure with checklists or appendices to address various distinct machinery and equipment in their facilities. This type of procedure and those described above may be considered a single energy control procedure (instead of multiple procedures) for inspection purposes if all of the criteria contained in this chapter on grouping the same or similar machines/equipment are met.
However, suppose checklists or appendices address machinery/equipment that does not use the same or similar control measures. In that case, the employer must divide machinery and equipment referenced in the checklists or appendices into groups, such that the machines/equipment in any group have the same or similar types of control measures.
Once this is accomplished, an employer may inspect and review the generic energy control procedure in conjunction with each distinct group of machines/equipment referenced in the relevant checklists or appendices.