I’ve often wondered if a lot of the pushback against OSHA regulations and workplace safety…

come down to a matter of perspective.

When I was an apprentice electrician I worked for a company that predominately dealt in hospitals.

So after only a few days on the job I was helping wire up what would become rooms with things like MRI machines and autoclaves and the like. Now I didn’t work with them directly obviously but I did work around them.

And I saw people flipping breakers wearing welding masks and using broomsticks to touch them.

Why?

Because these things would, if you didn’t respect them, kill you then set you on fire then start your heart again just to kill you a second time.

A slight exaggeration but it instilled in me a real fear of working with such things. And a respect for rules and regulations because we all wanted to go home, and the job was secondary.

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MethDozer · M

Eh, as a worker it's love/hate relationship.

They're good to have in general to keep the bosses and profiteers from killing you at work. Yet there's quite a few rules that are kinda eye rolly and/or make doing the actual work just nore difficult or obnoxious. Sometimes even near impossible. Murphy's law then just dictates that on onebof these cases where you bend a minor OSHA rule where it really isn't a big deal that over zealous OSHA inspector in perfectly creased jeans, sparkling clean steal toes, and a 5 year old hard hat that looks brand new comes and writes you up because the saftey cones are spaced 30 inches instead of 24 or some other dumb ass infraction. Or you didn't put a saftey harness on while moving the boom lift across the parking lot even though you never went up anywherr in it and the basket is solid wire fence up to your tits.