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What's LOTO in this context?
I only know it as the abbreviation for "Leader of the Opposition" which obviously doesn't make sense here.
You’re about to crawl inside a big dangerous machine to fix it, so you put a lock and tag on the power switch so that nobody can turn it on while you’re in there.
oh shit
A big zoo near me has a raceway between different animal enclosures. Most of the animals are monkeys and they're not that dangerous but for the dangerous animal they have a specific LOTO system that says "JAGUAR HAS ACCESS."
For anyone who might have a hard time conceptualizing its use in an industrial setting, this is basically a one-for-one comparison.
"jaguar has access" sounds so ominous (rightfully so)
It's literally a lock on a switch to physically prevent it from being opened, because the equipment it's connected to is being worked on and energizing is dangerous
This is one of the most maliciously stupid things I've ever seen and that's saying something
Lock Out Tag Out. It's an OSHA safety procedure
Lock out/tag out
For when machinery is not to be turned on/energized because it's being maintained or is malfunctioning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockout%E2%80%93tagout