silva.foxx
Member
Hi all
With all the experience and knowledge of the forum members, coupled with the diverse range of industries, I'm hoping to find an ideal solution to our problem of managing LOTO.
As we are now:
we're a 24/7 plant with every 24 hours covered by two maintenance crews on 12 hour shifts. LOTO consists of a cabinet of ten padlocks, not keyed alike, and a small booklet to enter date, key number, machine locked out and by whom. Lets just say the system aint working. Padlocks have all disappeared or had keys lost, they were not always booked out and have also been cut-off or used for other purposes. It isn't exactly managed, to say the least!
Where we need to be:
due to shifts not handing over on the shop floor, or items locked off for repair that will be reinstated when the shift that locked it off is off... a more secure system is sought.
Ideally it needs to be managed and managed with rigour... but until then something needs to be done.
It needs to be common to all shifts, and simple to adhere to. It's pretty disturbing that locks aren't available to the guys who have let the system fail; THAT NEEDS ADDRESSING FOREMOST.
Any suggestions, please?
Initial thoughts: each member assigned two personal locks with etched identity, keyed alike. Management to hold a master key for all and only management to remove a personal lock of a shift member off shift.
Need to ascertain a way of recording lock-offs.
What if the Manager is off ie after 'office' hours, weekend, night or holiday?
We're talking beer bottling industry so no life/death situations, just profit!
kindest regards
s.f
With all the experience and knowledge of the forum members, coupled with the diverse range of industries, I'm hoping to find an ideal solution to our problem of managing LOTO.
As we are now:
we're a 24/7 plant with every 24 hours covered by two maintenance crews on 12 hour shifts. LOTO consists of a cabinet of ten padlocks, not keyed alike, and a small booklet to enter date, key number, machine locked out and by whom. Lets just say the system aint working. Padlocks have all disappeared or had keys lost, they were not always booked out and have also been cut-off or used for other purposes. It isn't exactly managed, to say the least!
Where we need to be:
due to shifts not handing over on the shop floor, or items locked off for repair that will be reinstated when the shift that locked it off is off... a more secure system is sought.
Ideally it needs to be managed and managed with rigour... but until then something needs to be done.
It needs to be common to all shifts, and simple to adhere to. It's pretty disturbing that locks aren't available to the guys who have let the system fail; THAT NEEDS ADDRESSING FOREMOST.
Any suggestions, please?
Initial thoughts: each member assigned two personal locks with etched identity, keyed alike. Management to hold a master key for all and only management to remove a personal lock of a shift member off shift.
Need to ascertain a way of recording lock-offs.
What if the Manager is off ie after 'office' hours, weekend, night or holiday?
We're talking beer bottling industry so no life/death situations, just profit!
kindest regards
s.f
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