LOTO needs to be renamed to Lock out Tag out try and test....testing should be done with a device that has been proved prior to each test. and try means to try to start the device that has been disconnected. What if you lock out the wrong isolation device. It could be mislabeled, or wires may have been disconnected and reconnected for some reason and when the reconnect is made it is miss wired. Stranger things have happpened. when I was working in a plant there was some peice of temp equipment that they needed to power form a 480 MCC. it was decided that they would disconnect a couple of motors, remove the starter buckets and replace them with size 2 diisconnect. When the buckets were replaced the doors were swapped.... because those motors were seldom used it wasn't discovered for more than a year.
Corrected spelling errors.
[This message has been edited by Ray97502 (edited 10-05-2004).]
