History Main / NoOshaCompliance

* [[HarryPotter Hogwarts]] is a really unsafe school by any standards. There are many well known spots, such as a disappearing step, constantly shifting staircases, or the giant murder tree on the grounds, around the castle that nobody bothers to fix or at least warn the students about. Potions is done without even the most basic safety equipment, such as aprons or goggles. Not only does a badly made potion have a chance to explode or get in students eyes, but also cause massive (painful) growths, catch everything on fire, or turn everybody into cats. That's not even getting into Quidditch, a game played hundreds of feet in the air on sticks of wood that has heat seeking cannon balls trying to knock off students from their brooms. Good thing Madame Pomfrey's magical remedies are enough to handle all but the worst injuries.

* Often found in VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} as a result of player-created mines and buildings. You would expect a cleared cavern to be somewhat safe, but not when there's random 1 block wide holes made by players that aren't visible until you're right in front of them ( sometimes leading to lava or low enough to kill you), walls or bridges just narrow enough to walk across with no guardrails or sides where the smallest hit will send you falling to your doom- sometimes in the hell world of the nether over lava made of dirt or even soul sand when you have giant ghasts shooting fireballs at you that ''explode MadeOfExplodium'', and other hazards, all created (or at least left behind) by other players (excluding the natural generation of the world).

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* In ''Film/{{Alien}}'', the Nostromo has obnoxious strobe lights and steam jets that have no apparent purpose other than to make life difficult once the self-destruct protocol is initiated, while the third film has a man cleaning a tunnel right next to a fan that has no protective venting whatsoever. LV-426 in ''Aliens'' does have handrails, but they are only thigh-high, and result in at least one Colonial Marine falling over and plummeting through the floors of an atmosphere processor.

* In ''[[Film/StarTrekNemesis Nemesis]]''. The green shiny glowy thing channeling Thalaron radiation in Shinzon's ship is all open and exposed, allowing anybody to walk right up to it, hand phaser said glowy thing, and blow the ship all to hell.
* Oh, ''[[Film/StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]]''...

* ''The {{Franchise/Terminator}}'': The final fight takes place in a dangerous factory, with Sarah Connor using ''it'' as her only weapon.
** The second film averts this, as the smelting factory here has plenty of guardrails, with the only spot without them intended for lowering objects into a vat.
** Oddly, ''Terminator Salvation'''s factory at the end ''does'' have guardrails, even though it's been used for years by robots who would never need them.

** The concept of Westworld involves giving loaded firearms to ordinary tourists and encouraging them to engage in movie-style gunfights and barroom brawls, with the precaution that the guns won't fire directly at other tourists and the robots won't harm the tourists. These precautions seem totally inadequate! The tourists could cause all sorts of harm by careless handling of firearms even without directly shooting each other. And they could hurt themselves and others quite easily in a brawl, even if the robots don't attack them directly. However, there are possible justifications for this - a small degree of risk may be part of the appeal of Westworld, it is not clear whether it is located in a country with strict safety enforcement, and it is possible there are more safety precautions we are not told about.
* In ''WesternAnimation/WallE'', while the Buy n Large mega-corporation would be pulverized by the EPA if the company didn't basically own the ENTIRE planet (not even counting the literal ''mountains'' of trash, their plan to take care of the garbage as to just ''incinerate'' it all), they do have very good safety standards. The Axioms trash compactor gives ample warning before it sends the garbage into space (even though no human could realistically even get down there, and the doors close before the crash is sent off), the garbage shoots have covers over them, there is a ton of safety features on the escape pod (seat restraints, flares, floatation devices, fire hydrant), and there are manual emergency door overrides that for once ''actually work.''

* In ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', the lever that flips you into Yzma's secret lab is right next to a lever opening a trapdoor to a [[SharkPool crocodile pit]]. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d when Yzma's henchman pulls the wrong lever. Returning from her trip to the pool, the alligator-encumbered Yzma says, "Why do we even ''have'' that lever?" [[BrickJoke Kuzco would also like to know]]. This is also played with in the TV series. Every time Yzma goes to her lair in the school, she orders "Pull the lever, Kronk!" followed by something DIFFERENT happening to her each episode. Even Kuzco does this in a secret bunker that he had hidden in the jungle for some reason.

* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2's'' ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' DLC when Shepard notes that [[spoiler: the Shadow Broker's ship doesn't have any guardrails in a perpetual storm that has high-velocity winds.]]

** Even the second ''Normandy'' falls into this with the reactor-core having no discernible blast-door, so in the case of a power-surge or overload, the heat-sinks can discharge and end up ''incinerating people'', [[spoiler: which Kasumi/Legion/Tali/Thane/Garrus/Zaeed/Grunt found out if you didn't upgrade the shields]]. The upper level of the core has windows that lead directly into the [[FridgeHorror crew quarters]].
*** Oddly enough, the second ''Normandy'' also doesn't have anything like a flight of ''stairs'' for the crew to reach the bridge even though the first ''Normandy'' did[[hottip:note: and its value was made clear at the start of the game when Shepard used the stairs to save Joker]]. As far as can be told the only way to get to it from the other decks is an incredibly slow elevator or a very small and cramped ladder at the back of the science labs. One has to wonder if the reason why [[spoiler: the crew was so easily killed and captured by the Collectors]] was in part because of the awful interior design.
*** The reactor venting problem comes up in an almost comical fashion in the third game: not only do the Alliance techs spot the potential malfunction immediately (and slap armour plate over the windows), Engineer Adams is able to create a permanent fix in his spare time with a thousand credits worth of parts[[hottip:*:Guess Cerberus felt the leather seats were a more important use of their funds]]. He mentions that Cerberus just doesn't care about personnel safety, as if we needed more proof of that.
** The [[spoiler: quarian ship ''The Alarei'']] did this deliberately as [[spoiler: Tali's father deliberately ignored safety rules]] for the sake of the experiments. However they made an even bigger error that was never addressed by [[spoiler: giving the Geth access to the same computers that controlled the ship instead keeping them on computers isolated from it]].

*** This subversion [[http://www.hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2006-02-06 is lampshaded]] in the ''Half-Life 2'' {{webcomic|s}} ''Webcomic/{{Concerned}}''.

** Even the Emperor's throne room has a BottomlessPit with little waist-height rails.

* Basically, any level that takes place in a 'civilized' setting must be this to be interesting.

* The SCPFoundation plays with this. On the top of every article is an explanation on how to keep the various [[ArtifactofDoom dangerous objects]] locked away, and how to handle the things safely, and all safety precautions that MUST be taken when testing the objects... for the scientists. The [[CannonFodder class-D's]] get no such comforts, doing jobs that have extremely high fatality rates, or just the test subjects to see what [=SCPs=] do (and all of them a terminated after a month if they somehow survive). Also, it is very clear that the Foundation is above many regulations of any country, OSHA, EPA, or otherwise, just to keep the [[EldritchAbomination horrors they deal with]] contained.
** Many of the organization that create [=SCPs=] don't make these things safe for anyone that goes near the objects. Dr. Wondertainment's toy robot ([[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-846 Robo-Dude]]) only safety feature is the [[LongList long winded]] warning it gives to anyone who tries to use it. The toys features include "[[KillitWithFire Fire Drill]]", "[[MoreDakka Ultra Plasma Rifle]]", and '''"[[NukeEm Atomic Grenade]]."''' The Factory is even worse, proudly producing products that seem designed to kill anyone who even touches their products, such as a bouncy ball that increases in power each time it bounces (only stopping when it lands in water or leaves Earth orbit), destroying any building it is in.

** Modern view is that at no point the graphite itself was on fire (which would be ''extremely'' bad news), what was burning were the aluminum fuel cans. Luckily, the temperature wasn't high enough to pirolyse the water that was finally used to put the fire out, or the entire reactor might've blown up.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill The Exxon Valdez oil spill]]. All the oil companies were ignoring regulations without fear of repercussions. several glaring problems were present including the fact that the crew of the ''Valdez'' was not provided its mandatory 6 hours of rest after a 12 hour stint, the radar on the ship had been broken for more than a year and deemed too expensive to repair and operate, and the oil industry promised but never installed iceberg monitoring equipment. Honestly, this was a disaster waiting to happen.

* [[HarryPotter Hogwarts]] is a really unsafe school by any standards. There are many well known spots, such as a disappearing step, constantly shifting staircases, or the giant murder tree on the grounds, around the castle that nobody bothers to fix or at least warn the students about. Potions is done without even the most basic safety equipment, such as aprons or goggles. Not only does a badly made potion have a chance to explode or get in students eyes, but also cause massive (painful) growths, catch everything on fire, or turn everybody into cats. That's not even getting into Quidditch, a game played hundreds of feet in the air on sticks of wood that has heat seeking cannon balls trying to knock off students from their brooms.

** Electric fences are within quick and easy reach of anyone, from park guests to park personnel. If a park guest gets out of the tour car (see above) there's nothing stopping them from reaching out and grabbing a fence line. Also, there are security doors to the animal paddocks which have electrified locks ''on the outside'' of the door, so anyone wandering the service roads can stumble into them.

** In fact, StardestroyerNet contains [[http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/Engineering.html an essay]] (written by an engineer) specifically about the subject. And a small [[http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Tech/Brahms/index.html fanfic]] about a starship designer being tried for non OSHA compliance.

** [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]] takes this to eleven, then goes to idiotic extremes so it seams that the ship was designed to kill its crew before anything else. Manual door overrides don't work when there isn't power. The only system in the ENTIRE ship that has its own power supply (that is incompatible with the rest of the ship, somehow) isn't the important things like the shields, weapons, or replicators, but the Holodecks (which always where [[HolodeckMalfunction trying to kill the crew as well]]). Most of the ship wiring is "gel packs," living tissues that they only have a very limited supply of (and can't replicate nor actually grow, missing the one benefit that a biological system would have over a metallic one) that once was poisoned by Neelix's [[LethalChef cooking]]. The one time the ship wasn't on the edge of exploding was when an enemy shot out the "secondary command modules," preventing Janeway from having the ship self destruct when it was boarded (and the computer only informed her of this fact AFTER she tried to initiate a self destruct).

** Wraith Hive-ships in ''StargateAtlantis'' have fairly thin walkways above giant chasms with nary a guard rail in sight. Partly justified in that the Wraith don't really care about warriors falling to their deaths, but their commanders might also fall. Additionally, their "scoop" beams deposit people on any location without checking if it's safe first. Sheppard restored people stored in the buffer (several of whom are his) on one of the above-mentioned walkways with a few of the baddies materializing off the walkway. Naturally, gravity immediately takes over.

** The original show averts this with a passion, showing all the various safety equipment and procedures the drivers must have, size limits on cargo (with extra wide ones labelled even though it is blindly obvious), and either the fines the drivers face when the safety procedures are ignored, or the crashed trucks.

*** This is elaborated on in the EU, where it's revealed that podracing was eventually banned by the Empire; not that this necessarily stops dangerous activities, since Swoop racing becomes popular afterwards. [[labelnote: *]] Swoops are described as heavily modded speeder bikes that consist of a seat, handling controls, and an [[EnormousEngine overpowered]] engine [[/labelnote]]

** Some of the hull windows were said to be ''force fields'', but this was in an enclosed maintenance-type area seemingly only accessible via Jeffries tubes and was normally covered by a retractable piece of hull anyway. As it is, force fields are used to seal hull breaches in any case in every series other then ''Enterprise''.

-->''Cave Johnson'': Science isn't about "Why", [[ForScience it's about "Why]] ''[[ForScience Not]]''"! You ask ''why'' is so much of our science dangerous? I say: [[WhyDontYouMarryIt Why not MARRY safe science if you love it so much?]] In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because ''you are'' '''''fired'''''! [[IsThisThingOn Not you, test subject, you're doing fine.]] Yes, you! ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Box! Your stuff! Out the front door! Parking lot! Car!]]'' '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Goodbye!]]'''

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'''s Aperture Science Enrichment Center is mostly an intentional DeathCourse, but even the behind-the-scenes parts seem out for blood. After all, it was run by researchers who decided it would be a good idea to empower a [[AIIsACrapshoot malevolent AI]] MasterComputer to release a [[DeadlyGas deadly neurotoxin]] throughout the facility. The lack of safety of the testing environments themselves is {{lampshade|Hanging}}s repeatedly by [=GLaDOS=].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Nuclear Power Plant is a safety nightmare. There are repeated scenes of Burns doing things to try and circumvent getting shut down, from running for governor or bribing officials.
** If only it stopped at Mr. Burns. His employees seem to be the most incompetent gaggle of nitwits ever created. They hired ''Homer Simpson'' for crying out loud, and have not fired him after numerous accidents that came within a hair's breadth of looking like the sordid offspring of a threesome between Chernobyl, Three-Mile Island and the Love Canal... Then there's Lenny, who refitted the soda machines in Sector 7G to dispense beer if one asked for club soda... The OnlySaneMan in the whole plant was driven suicidally insane in short order, let's just leave it at that. Homer was once able to cause a nuclear meltdown in a test environment containing no nuclear materials. The worst part is, Homer is the one in charge of the safety.
** Mr. Burns' YesMan Waylan Smithers seems somewhat competant (at least compared to most of the plant's employees) but even he isn't perfect. He once admitted that one of his 2,800 duties is lying to Congress.
*** In various episodes, we see clips of plant workers doing everything from playing chess in the reactor core to holding cockfights in the lunch room to engaging in "Nap Time" in the middle of the day. They also scream and panic whenever there's an emergency, remove emergency procedure posters to make into get-well-soon cards, and engage in log-rolling contests using drums of nuclear waste.

* A ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode shows the Professor making safety upgrades to the spaceship "(the crew) has been suing (him) about". Among them: taping up the crack in the dark matter reactor, and putting the lion in a cage. Leela might also be considered non-OSHA, what with the whole not having any depth perception and all. Plus the current crew is at least the second (the other having been eaten by space wasps), and it's implied there have been more.

* The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 was one of the instigators of this trope. The owners of the factory had locked the doors to prevent the women inside from taking unauthorized breaks, which led to a massive loss of life when a fire broke out inside. The resulting backlash created many of the laws that OSHA would later enforce.

* A ''{{CSI}}'' episode had the team investigating a crime at a restaurant and learn of the cooking staff's strange customs. The one about flicking blood around the kitchen whenever any of the staff cut themselves particularly appalls Catherine Wells and Gus Grissom as being ridiculously unsanitary, "Hasn't anyone heard of [=HIV=]?"

* ''Webcomic/DMOfTheRings'' [[http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=753 on Lothlorien]]:

* In ''Literature/TheFellowshipOfTheRing'', the Fellowship has to cross the bridge of Khazad-Dum in Moria, which is right above a huge chasm with no rails or walls, narrow enough for just one person. Its justified since its a defensive measure built by the dwarves in case goblins or some one attacked (the attacking army would be forced to go in a single file and a snails pace to avoid death, all while you can pelt them with arrows from a safe position..

** Blackrock Spire is pretty bad in this respect too. The dungeon - supposedly a city inhabited mostly by orcs and dragons - is full of narrow bridges and easily-accessible ledges with no handrails whatsoever. While the bridges ''may'' be defensive structures a la [[TheLordOfTheRings Khazad-Dum]], where they aren't over lava they're over drops that you need a parachute to survive.

*** The venting of the reactor core is mentioned in the third game, along with the fact that Cerberus isn't too keen on the safety of their agents. Which should be obvious given the number of projects they make that go completely to hell.