isnt the LOTO procedure to ask the person listed on the tag whats wrong with it before actually trying to use it. Boss ego crazy to completely just ignore the tag without understanding why it was on there in the first place.
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Snowclone@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoI used to put these on broken equipment, intensely fucking annoying job, had my boss cut one off, plug back in the unit, call me into his office to chew me out for DARING to lock out tag out a working unit, and then the fire alarm goes off. Guess what started the fire? I couldn’t quit fast enough.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
lolrightythen@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
At my place of work, we have a switch that has been locked out for over a decade. The dude doesn’t even work there anymore. Perhaps isn’t alive. It isn’t critical, but our LOTO trainings don’t cover that possibility.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That’s actually exactly how it should work. The switch isn’t necessary, or someone would have called in an expert to fix it, so it hasn’t been fixed and remains locked.
lolrightythen@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
But what if we wanted to tag it back in?
Snowclone@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Oh yeah, the other side is just the info on who put the tag in, and identifying the equipment so people don’t rotate the same tags to other equipment.
Etterra@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There’s always some jackass pulling this kind of thing. I’ve even heard of people cutting off locks for locking out things, including a shit like breaker boxes while a guy was working on wiring. Jackass coworker pulled that, blew the guy who locked it and tagged it right off of his ladder and into the hospital. The boss suggested to the idiot that cut it off that he could either resign immediately or wait until injured coworker came back from the hospital and rehabilitation and deal with him personally. Idiot stick quit.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
WHY DID HIS DUMB ASS NOT GET FIRED FOR ATTEMPTING TO ELECTROCUTE A COWORKER?!?!
Seriously, I’m more mad at the company for their policy than the dumbass who tried to fry another employee. The employee is a moron who might hurt someone, the company is negligent and is likely to get multiple employees hurt or killed with that kind of lax policy.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
What happened to the idiot? Did he stick or did he quit?