On 15 Jan 2010 at 12:40, Doc Shipley wrote:
I was 30 feet off the floor working on a bridge
crane once, and a
laborer on the ground:
Decades ago, when I worked in heavy industry, every electrician or
related craft (e.g., pyrometer technician) was issued a lock and a
tag with their clock number on it. Under no circumstances were you
to work on any electrical equipment (with the exception of testing
and calibration) without throwing the associated disconnect and
locking and tagging it. Failure to do so would likely earn you
unpaid vacation days.
There are just too many idiots running around loose.
(Then there's the time when I was 10 feet away when an overhead crane
dropped a 20 ton coil of steel right through the floor...)
Cheers,
Chuck