Those things exist for one goddamned reason.

Fuck with my LOTO and I'm gonna try to get you booted from my jobsite. That's a pissing contest worth pursuing.

imo that should be treated as attempted murder with all related criminal consequences

One time we were on this job during a plant shutdown. everyone on our crew attached a lock to the LOTO slot. One guy took off without undoing his lock. Everyone had to wait for this guy to answer his phone, turn around, drive back, get his PPE back on, walk back to the lock box and cut his own lock.

There was nobody inside the facility, every machine was shut down for the day. Still, not a single one of these incredibly impatient and pissed off tradesmen even JOKED about cutting buddy's lock. You just don't do it

Yea if someone fucks with my lock out and managment/the company doesn't take it seriously I'm walking out while I still can

Isn't this what happened to that kid who got killed in a literal meatgrinder in a plant? Jesus.

I know of one guy who cut a lock-out lock at an old job. It was done after hours when nobody else was around and he had "confirmed" that nobody was near the device in question. He was immediately fired because you DO NOT FUCKING CUT A LOCK OUT LOCK.

Commits seriously reckless safety violation that puts workers' lives in danger without telling anyone

Management: Just don't do it again. See you tomorrow at 9.

They say in the Twitter thread that they think the person isn't getting punished because they're so understaffed. That they'd rather just be careless with the lives of the workers, instead of dare hire and train more people. Which sounds very plausible unfortunately.

in communist china they don't care about worker's safety

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.

Wild, that kinda thing is honestly grounds for firing

The stories my dad used to tell me about factory machinery used to keep me up at night

Horrifying stuff

And most of those stories started with people not using/fucking with the lock-out shit

if you ever wonder for an example between social murder vs. murder look little further than this

HOLY FUCKING SHIT! WHOEVER CUT IT DOESN’T DESERVE TEETH!

So this is like ripping a red tag-out note off on a piece of machinery and operating it anyway? I only have a naval frame of reference.

Holy shit

The person that did this will get someone killed eventually.

This is usually an instant termination not because of safety but because doing this shit is a fantastic way to lose your insurance. Also a serious OSHA violation and against labor laws in almost every state. Exposing the company to massive liability is reason enough to fire someone for this.

Am I correctly understanding that these locks are some sort of failsafe on dangerous machinery and that there are procedures and specific reasons for unlocking them properly?

Yeah, that's not good.

A lot of padlocks like this don't even need to be cut. Pretty much any of them with a spring loaded catch can be opened by hitting it. Don't even have to hit the cheaper ones that hard.

When did this turn into r/electricians?

Where is the OHS rep wtf

I have no idea what's going on here. What's a LOTO?