User guide

8- 2 LOCKOUT-PRO
TM
ENTERPRISE User Guide
Understanding LOCKOUT-PRO Templates
Procedure templates define how content is included and formatted, and determine what content is
standard. For example, they also control the titles, text, colors, and layout and warnings or messages
that need to be on every procedure.
Using templates helps ensure that your employees know exactly where to look for a specific type of
information and that the information is presented clearly. They also ensure that terms, descriptions,
instructions, and so forth are used in a consistent manner.
While the templates are designed by Brady’s lockout/tagout specialists to ensure compliance, they
also provide you the flexibility to modify them to best meet your needs.
Templates vs. Defaults
Templates and defaults both customize procedure writing to make it work effectively for you, but they
focus on different aspects.
• Templates control the type and format of content that displays on a procedure , while
Defaults control the specific wording of choices for a given type of content.
For example:
Defaults offer a list of energy source types from which you can choose when creating a specific
procedure. Templates, on the other hand, determine how that energy source type displays on
the printed procedure.
•
Template changes, are specific to a certain form — Long, Short, or Combined — and printer
— sheet-feed or
GLOBALMARK
®
Industrial Label Maker , while changes to the lists of
defaults apply to all 3 forms.
For example : If you change the default so an energy source identifier uses an abbreviation vs.
an icon, that default will show up on every procedure after changing it once. However, if you want
to substitute the
LOCKOUT-PRO
TM
logo with one of yours on all procedures, you must make
that change on all 3 templates for each type of printer, if you use both sheet-fed and
GLOBALMARK
®
printers.
For more on defaults and how to customize them, see Chapter 7: Setting Defaults.