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 > > ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list" ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
