That is the correct way but I see so many people skip it cause either a. I need it powered so I can test what’s wrong well it’s already open and I found the problem. Or b. I didn’t know that was a danger. For the example at my last job we created some titanium dust as a byproduct. If you don’t know titanium dust when exposed to a oxygen can and will explode. I had a coworker who didn’t respect that and acted careless cause it was a Saturday on overtime and he had other plans, good news he was already bald bad news he no longer had any hair on his head. No eyebrows, his beard stubble, his nose hair all gone because it flashed.
I had another coworker who tried to “help” me with an operation. I was working on one side of the machine and he tried to help clean the other side. He exposed oxygen into the piping, the dust flashed while my head was 6 inches away from the machine. I jumped back and minorly hurt my back(nothing serious, just like pain for a day) and could not hear for 3 days.
These were both with same company. Both were recorded and reported. So many people I talked to there didn’t even know about the risk of explosion. Yes there was a sign and yes there was a procedure. Most people ignored them till I told these stories and stressed the risk of titanium dust.
Yeah … doing LOTO correctly, it should always be the person at risk who did the locking out himself, putting his own lock on it to which only he has the key.
That way, you’d never find yourself in this situation, having to trust whether or not your coworker did it properly.
lock out
tag out
test out (usually not like this)
That is the correct way but I see so many people skip it cause either a. I need it powered so I can test what’s wrong well it’s already open and I found the problem. Or b. I didn’t know that was a danger. For the example at my last job we created some titanium dust as a byproduct. If you don’t know titanium dust when exposed to a oxygen can and will explode. I had a coworker who didn’t respect that and acted careless cause it was a Saturday on overtime and he had other plans, good news he was already bald bad news he no longer had any hair on his head. No eyebrows, his beard stubble, his nose hair all gone because it flashed.
I had another coworker who tried to “help” me with an operation. I was working on one side of the machine and he tried to help clean the other side. He exposed oxygen into the piping, the dust flashed while my head was 6 inches away from the machine. I jumped back and minorly hurt my back(nothing serious, just like pain for a day) and could not hear for 3 days.
These were both with same company. Both were recorded and reported. So many people I talked to there didn’t even know about the risk of explosion. Yes there was a sign and yes there was a procedure. Most people ignored them till I told these stories and stressed the risk of titanium dust.
Yeah … doing LOTO correctly, it should always be the person at risk who did the locking out himself, putting his own lock on it to which only he has the key.
That way, you’d never find yourself in this situation, having to trust whether or not your coworker did it properly.