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CAM-252

Electrical cabinet open, line running, not a padlock in sight

Mid-morning. A technician has opened the electrical cabinet of the case packer and is working with a screwdriver among the breakers and the wiring. The door is wide open and his tool cart sits behind him with the case open. The line hasn’t stopped: cartons keep coming down the rollers alongside and the machine stack light is still lit. There’s no padlock and no tag hanging on the cabinet door.

Mid-morning. A technician has opened the electrical cabinet of the case packer and is working with a screwdriver among the breakers and the wiring. The door is wide open and his tool cart sits behind him with the case open. The line hasn’t stopped: cartons keep coming down the rollers alongside and the machine stack light is still lit. There’s no padlock and no tag hanging on the cabinet door.
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CAM-252 · PACKAGING LINE · NO LOCKOUT TAG

What IRIS understands

What it recognizes in this scene

  • technician at the cabinet
  • electrical cabinet open
  • cabinet door, no padlock
  • machine stack light
  • roller conveyor running with cartons
  • tool cart

What this camera measures

An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.

  • 6 mintime with the cabinet open
  • 09:14time it was opened
  • 0padlocks or tags in sight
  • 1people in front of the cabinet
  • 2cartons on the rollers during the job

The figures on this screen are an example from the illustration, not any client’s measurement.

The rule

You decide once. IRIS applies it always.

If

a person is working at an open cabinet and no padlock or tag is visible

Then

  1. raise a critical alert for the maintenance supervisor
  2. save the video from the moment the cabinet door opened
  3. leave the image of the cabinet and the time for the lockout record
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if someone opens an electrical cabinet and starts working with no padlock or tag hanging on it while the line is still running.»

What changes

What changes for whoever answers for the plant

Mid-morning, line still running and the technician inside the electrical cabinet: lockout gets skipped when people are in a hurry, and it almost never gets recorded. It’s what separates ordinary maintenance from an electrical accident. IRIS looks at the cabinet door: whether it is open, whether somebody is in front of it and whether there’s a padlock or tag in sight. Alert right away and video of the exact minute. The limit has to be said out loud: the camera sees that there’s no padlock, not that the energy is isolated. That’s guaranteed by the procedure.

What people usually ask

Does IRIS check that the machine is de-energized?

No. IRIS sees what’s visible: the open door, the person in front of it and whether a padlock or tag is hanging. Confirming that the energy is isolated is the job of the lockout procedure and its electrical checks.

What if the padlock is on but the camera can’t see it?

Then an alert goes off and a person closes it in seconds. That’s why the padlock place is defined when the rule is set up: if it always goes in the same spot and that spot is visible, the alert stops firing for nothing.

Does it work as a record for an audit?

Yes, as visual evidence. Every alert stores the camera, the time and the video of the opening. It doesn’t replace the signed lockout record: it goes with it, adding the image of the exact minute.

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And the best part

At eleven the last person leaves.The cameras stay, and now they understand what is going on.

Nobody switches anything off on the way out. What happens in an empty building is understood right then, and nobody waits for the doors to open to find out.

Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.

A person answers, the same working day.