In the year 2023, we still get the old questioning of the intent of LOTO. It never fails; in our LOTO training, we will get operators repeating the application of LOTO to their jobs, word for word, as I have stated it, and then comes the $60,000 question… Does my boss know about this?
Another reason why management (including front-line supers) needs to be active in ALL the initial training courses, not just the one that officially trains them as Authorized, Affected, or Others. It is weird to say this in 2023 since LOTO has been around since the late 1980s, but it happens far too often.
But there is a way to make LOTO efficient… I call this “Local LOTO.”