The 3-pole isolator has become the norm here for timed fans:

[Linked Image from tlc-direct.co.uk]

MK is now making a version with a lock out provision, although from the pictures I can't quite figure out how the padlock is supposed to work: [Linked Image]

[Linked Image from tlc-direct.co.uk]

I'm trying to think when these isolators first appeared. I think it might have been with the 15th edition (1981).