GeorgeB
ElectroHydraulics engineer (retired)
- Location
- Greenville SC
- Occupation
- Retired
Re: Lock out/Tag out
For the facility representative to apply the first lock and me to add mine to the system has SO FAR been interpreted as good and proper. Indeed, where many are working on one piece of equipment, I've regularly been in a "group lockout" environment where the owner locks equipment with multiple locks, puts those keys into a box, and "we" put our locks on the box. I have a habit of verifying that the equipment I'm told was locked out matches where the locks are ... when the MCC is hundreds of feet from the motor, and there are at least dozens of MCCs in a single location ... mistakes are easy to make.
Things are always open to interpretation, but every time I have had a need to LOTO, this has been interpreted that only I can place (or remove) my lock, that is, I cannot have someone else place or remove MY lock.
For the facility representative to apply the first lock and me to add mine to the system has SO FAR been interpreted as good and proper. Indeed, where many are working on one piece of equipment, I've regularly been in a "group lockout" environment where the owner locks equipment with multiple locks, puts those keys into a box, and "we" put our locks on the box. I have a habit of verifying that the equipment I'm told was locked out matches where the locks are ... when the MCC is hundreds of feet from the motor, and there are at least dozens of MCCs in a single location ... mistakes are easy to make.