I'm not an authority, but I would think that this is against both the
fire code and common sense. If an emergency developed such as electric
shock or fire and the breaker could not be manually opened, i see it as
tantamount to the locking of fire escape doors and many liability
concerns. The object of locking out a single breaker is to prevent
THAT breaker from being energized accidently.
Warren Birmingham
Epsilon-Mu Consultants
(510) 793-4806
email: [email protected]
website: http://www.epsilon-mu.com
On Wednesday, Sep 18, 2002, at 10:29 US/Pacific, [email protected] wrote:
Group,
Is anyone aware of an authoritative position on the acceptability (or
not) of applying a lock to a breaker panel cover (and so affecting
access to other, unrelated, breakers behind the same cove) to achieve
OSHA compliant Lockout/Tagout rather than applying the lock to breaker
directly?
-Lauren Crane
TUV America
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