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Always verify the equipment you are working on is still physically LO-TO. I heard a story about one person who LO-TO a breaker on Friday, and Monday it had pow

Always verify the equipment you are working on is still physically LO-TO. I heard a story about one person who LO-TO a breaker on Friday, and Monday it had power when he went to work on it. The guy went to check the breaker, and the breaker was sitting on the ground with the lock still attached, and a new breaker in its place.

csours 7y ago
Hooo boy. I think there might be a few more breakers on the ground if that was me.
- Gibbon1 7y ago
  You misspelled 'teeth'
ISL 7y ago
Oh, wow. That's tantamount to attempted manslaughter.
TheCapn 7y ago
Always verify the motor/equipment you're locking out is prevented from running! Coworkers and I were just dishing commissioning job horror stories where folks get too antsy to run their facility and start bumping motors while people are still working elsewhere. Just because that breaker is labelled to run a specific motor, unless its been verified, it might be wired to the wrong motor, or the labelling is wrong or any other host of oversights. Had a manager come in, and run his motor. The electrician who was elsewhere in the facility straddling a auger watched it suddenly spin beneath his feet because the lock he put on a breaker was not physically wired to that motor (had not yet been tested). Lots of horror stories from that particular site. Always verify YOURSELF. Don't trust other people's word
drdeadringer 7y ago
This is one of my pet peeves: you are in the middle of a test, or maintenance, or similar ... then the weekend could come, it could be a simple bathroom break and you're at a good spot to pause for five minutes. You come back, and someone has somehow messed with your equipment. Obviously no one is using anything, everything must be available! They could have done anything from disconnect a cable to outright taking everything over for their own pet curiosity project -- all non-priority, of course. Total break of configuration to say the least, to speak nothing of potential safety issues to people or equipment. I have had multiple people ignore multiple "test in progress", "do not touch" signs and indicators multiple times for [honestly] no good reason, LO-TO or not. If I had the authority to ban them from the area unless escorted I would have. High priority emergency? Yes boss, I'll wait to finish or redo from scratch whatever I was doing for you. But if you're low on battery and want more Stardew Valley? You can wait or go somewhere else. /rant
mcguire 7y ago
That was the subject of a monthly bulletin once. Reading between the lines, somebody didn't have a job the next day.

csours 7y ago

Hooo boy. I think there might be a few more breakers on the ground if that was me.

Gibbon1 7y ago
You misspelled 'teeth'

ISL 7y ago

Oh, wow. That's tantamount to attempted manslaughter.

TheCapn 7y ago

Always verify the motor/equipment you're locking out is prevented from running! Coworkers and I were just dishing commissioning job horror stories where folks get too antsy to run their facility and start bumping motors while people are still working elsewhere. Just because that breaker is labelled to run a specific motor, unless its been verified, it might be wired to the wrong motor, or the labelling is wrong or any other host of oversights. Had a manager come in, and run his motor. The electrician who was elsewhere in the facility straddling a auger watched it suddenly spin beneath his feet because the lock he put on a breaker was not physically wired to that motor (had not yet been tested). Lots of horror stories from that particular site. Always verify YOURSELF. Don't trust other people's word

drdeadringer 7y ago

This is one of my pet peeves: you are in the middle of a test, or maintenance, or similar ... then the weekend could come, it could be a simple bathroom break and you're at a good spot to pause for five minutes. You come back, and someone has somehow messed with your equipment. Obviously no one is using anything, everything must be available! They could have done anything from disconnect a cable to outright taking everything over for their own pet curiosity project -- all non-priority, of course. Total break of configuration to say the least, to speak nothing of potential safety issues to people or equipment. I have had multiple people ignore multiple "test in progress", "do not touch" signs and indicators multiple times for [honestly] no good reason, LO-TO or not. If I had the authority to ban them from the area unless escorted I would have. High priority emergency? Yes boss, I'll wait to finish or redo from scratch whatever I was doing for you. But if you're low on battery and want more Stardew Valley? You can wait or go somewhere else. /rant

mcguire 7y ago

That was the subject of a monthly bulletin once. Reading between the lines, somebody didn't have a job the next day.