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[–] 46 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

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.

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  • [–] 83 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 62 points 10 months ago

    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

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