Have you ever been told… “it moves too slow to be a hazard”? If you stay in the safety profession long enough, you will be presented with this viewpoint. But LOTO is NEVER about how slow something moves; there is no exemption in the standard for such a thing. Here is a case we can use to demonstrate that the speed at which a hazardous form of energy moves does NOT matter…
…worker’s upper body was caught by the rotating augur (moving at 1 revolution/10 minute), and the employee was decapitated and killed…