Recently IN-OSHA issued citations to the nation’s largest grocery store chain when management at one of their retail outlets removed a contractor’s LOTO lock without following their own (or the contractor’s lock removal procedures). We can get some idea as to what happened based on the citations, but bottom line… BEFORE cutting off a LOTO lock, procedures have to be followed! It appears to be a shift change matter as well, as one manager signed off on the contractor to use their lock(s) and another manager gave the OK to cut off the contractor’s lock.