[alsysadmin]

I've spent many career years in sysadmin / process automation for manufacturing companies, and LOTO is one of many pieces of proper procedure and process that really impresses me about that industry. I worked at a big steel recycling plant, and the zero tolerance effort put toward safety and generally ensuring that this type of stuff was upheld was impressive. Not locking out a machine, or forgetting your lock on a machine was a fireable offense with like, one warning I think. You certainly didn't want to be the guy who was working on a machine that morning, and left your lock on it when you went home while someone else was working on it. They'd call you and get you out of bed real quick if it meant the machine couldn't start up because your lock is on there and you weren't accounted for.

SRE's and operations people can pick up good habits from manufacturing gigs. A lot of the same concepts like uptime, good documentation, procedure, discipline are really important to the business at all levels. When lives are at risk good companies put a large sum of time and money in making sure everyone is on the same page.