[Openurmind]

“lock-out, tag-out”

Only works until a manager comes along and thinks he is smarter than the operator who tagged it.

See it too many times.

[Hot Tabasco]

A bunch of years ago at our stamping plant in Detroit, we had an electrician who was killed. He was on a ladder at the back of the press shop, working on an electrical panel, when he was crushed against the wall by a massive overhead crane.

He had failed to lock it out and the crane operator, who was moving a pallet of steel panels, couldn't see him because he was obscured by a stamping press.

[Rural_Michigan]

Usually see the other way around. Management always trying to enforce loto on techs that are too lazy to do it.

[Pontiac]

Safe Clear Distance of an operating machine.

All of the industrial robots I have seen have caution tap on the floor denoting the operating area of the machine

Stay out of that box when the robot is in operation.

The robot I personally operated had an operator/programmer’s pendant that could be used to trouble shoot the robot.

It could be used to step the robot through it’s operation. Each line of programming could be executed one line at a time.

I would have had the the robot in step mode if I was going to be inside the box trouble shooting.

Even in step mode it would be wise to be outside the box every time you proceeded to the next step.

They move fast.