How did you spend your Friday night and Saturday? Me? I spent mine helping a client manage a traumatic injury to a new employee with less than 3-weeks on the job. And like most employers, this company truly cares about their employees and honestly wants the best for their employees. This business may be the last of the companies that cover 100% of the insurance costs for their employees; the CEO spends about half her time in the plants and at safety committee meetings listening to employees and engaging in the safety solutions. So how could this type of workplace fall prey to a LOTO accident? Easy, they, too, are having difficulty finding employees to meet their production demands! The company had slowed production because of too many incidents/accidents weeks before this incident, but that was not enough – employees had already established how to cut corners to meet the production demands, and those “habits” were well in place. But this organization stepped up and performed the investigation, leaving no rock unturned, and they know what is going to most likely happen on Monday when OSHA arrives. Here is how this LOTO Failure accident occurred – every workplace has done this with varying degrees of failure and why being “Authorized” means something in LOTO.