History NoOSHACompliance / Film

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The same video, however, points out that the movie was filmed shortly before OSHA was established (but released afterward), possibly turning these into subversions; you can't violate something that doesn't yet exist. That said, see the entry for "No OSHA Compliance" for [[WebVideo/GameTheory Film Theory]].

* ''Film/DancinItsOn'': The hotel featured in the film has people constantly dancing and breaking out in risky circus performances in places like the kitchen or a crowded lobby.

** The Geonosian Droid Factory from Film/AttackOfTheClones Is this even by the standards of the galaxy in-universe. ConveyorBeltODoom, retractable platforms, giant swinging arms that can decapitate a person, and giant vats for carrying molten being carried on rail located right next to more of the obligatory platforms with no guardrails. Despite this it is shown having a manual override that actually works and most of it is [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as A. The factory has been closed down for centuries so it naturally would not be up to date in terms of safety standards. B. The [[AristocratsAreEvil Geonosian Aristocrats]] exhibit a WeHaveReserves mentality, C. Said Reserves are conditioned solely to serve those Aristocrats and don't about the lack of safety standards. D. The entire operation is illegal. and E. The above mentioned retractable platform is meant to serve as a launchpad for the winged overseer drones to use.
** Mustafar. Between the unstable (after Obi and Vader cause a FailsafeFailure) platforms all over and the lava, it is not surprising The Separatist chose this planet as their final hideout. The only thing keeping the place from melting to slag were the forcefields... which were disabled by two guys laser-swordfighting.

* The second half of ''Film/DarkStar'' centers around a talking bomb that gets jammed in the launch bay and refuses to disarm itself while still attached to the ship. The whole problem could have been avoided if the launching procedure had been changed to launch the bomb, confirm the bomb is clear, ''then'' tell the bomb to start the detonation countdown. Or included an abort code in the programming in case of emergencies just like this.

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' in a number of places, most notably when TheCaptain and the {{Bridge Bunn|ies}}y need to pass through a part of the ship that is essentially a DeathCourse for no reason other than that it was used as one in the original series the ship was based on. On seeing what they had to do to get past, the {{Bridge Bunn|ies}}y (Creator/SigourneyWeaver playing actress Gwen De Marco playing Lt. Tawny Madison) exclaims, "Well, forget it! I'm not doing it! This episode was ''badly written''!"

* In ''Film/CityOfEmber'', the generator of Ember has catwalks and stairs going above and alongside heavy, dangerous, steam-emitting machinery of all kinds. And the official, government-approved method to escape the city involves [[spoiler:hundreds to thousands of people ''riding a ridiculously dangerous water toboggan on tiny wooden boats that are intended to pass above large water turbines'']]. Note that it's not described as being nearly so dangerous in the book; most likely this was done for [[RuleofCool dramatic effect.]]
%%* The finale of the Creator/SylvesterStallone film ''Film/{{Cobra}}''.

* ''Film/{{Daylight}}'' which featured Creator/SylvesterStallone as a hot shot EMS rescuing people from a blocked and weakened underwater "Hudson Tunnel" (standing in for the Lincoln Tunnel) in [[BigApplesauce New York City]]. The ventilation facilities for said tunnels was something that has just flown under the radar of the OSHA whale for sure. In real life, the ventilation system costs several hundred million dollars, consume several dozen kilowatts of power, and in the event of an emergency the fans will run at 105% capacity until failure. And trucks like that aren't allowed to go through any tunnels for exactly this reason. Even ones that just catch on fire like they would in real life instead of producing an Independence Day-sized fireball. And ones where the explodium barrels are actually secured.

* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' movie ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', Mal needs to access a machine that's "a little hard to get to"; it's on a platform in the center of a deep shaft filled with moving and grinding machinery. The bridge controls are for some reason only on the platform itself[[note]]the guy who owned the place is a master hacker, so he may have had it configured for voice-print or suchlike[[/note]], and even extended, the bridge is narrow and has no railing (though at least the platform does). Justified in that the machine serves as his secret backup, the death course is just another layer of security.
* Exaggerated in ''Film/ForkliftDriverKlaus''. The factory that the title character works at isn't merely lax by EU standards- it's [[EverythingTryingToKillYou an absolute death trap waiting to spring]]! The ending takes the cake: the chainsaw man [[spoiler: is accidentally impaled by Klaus; forklift]], leading to [[spoiler: Klaus' decapitation by chainsaw, the subsequent DeadfootLeadfoot causing ''another'' impalement, the chainsaw guy's arm being ripped off, and the chainsaw death of a man who had earlier been cut in half and somehow survived until now!]] And because there were so many accidents earlier in the day, the alarm bell broke and fell off the wall (hitting someone in the process), meaning that the ambulance can't help anyone. Even weirder is that Klaus passed his forklift safety exam, and the film begins with him earning his license.

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Film/IRobot'' when [[spoiler:Creator/WillSmith, trying to get to the brain of the villain computer, complains about the stupidity of a design involving narrow catwalks suspended over a 100+ -story shaft. Especially when trying to cross while being attacked by hundreds of {{killer robot}}s. Presumably US Robotics designed it to be pretty and/or serviced by robots, because it's not like that kind of arrogance would be out of character for them]].

** There's also the [[spoiler:deadly anti-VIKI nanomachines. Which are kept in a forcefield that ''instantly'' destroys the parts of any standard robot that touches it. There is ''no'' barrier around the container. Just think what it would do to any human in the room who, say, tripped.]]
* ''Film/LifeAsAHouse'': George is told that the proximity of an unenclosed toilet to a kitchen in his shack is a health code violation, so George resolves to quickly fix the problem by grabbing an armoire, emptying it, cutting a hole at at the bottom with his chainsaw, and then putting the armoire on top of the toilet.

* ''Franchise/JurassicPark''. In both [[Literature/JurassicPark the novel]] and [[Film/JurassicPark the film]], the park is not ready to be opened to the general public. In the novel, Hammond is simply too arrogant to really care; in the film, he's too optimistic. Several of these were patched by the time ''Film/JurassicWorld'' opens up.

--->"Y'know, my bathroom door has a button on the knob. Ya press it, AND IT '''LOCKS'''."

* The BloodyHilarious German training video [[spoiler: parody]] ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-rJndNbCYY Klaus the Forklift Driver]]''. Actually, the workplace does conform to all safety standards, but the employees keep ignoring the safety rules and the film shows the disastrous consequences. It must be seen to be believed.

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** Averted early in ''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}'', when Bruce Banner (working at a Brazilian soft drink bottling plant) cuts his finger and '''immediately''' has them shut down the production line so he can make sure his blood didn't taint any bottles. Unfortunately, Bruce stops when he sees a blood spatter on the conveyor belt, completely missing the droplet that landed on a bottle and kicks off the main plot by revealing his location to General Ross.
** ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' plays it straight, however. The helicarrier may be a marvel of engineering, but one has to wonder what goes on behind the scenes at SHIELD, since no one seems to have realised that angling the flight deck out over one of the four rotors holding the carrier aloft is an ''astoundingly'' bad idea. Of course, we see later on in the film that it is possible to slow down the rotors, and the 'carrier can fly on just three. But that still means it's designed to hamper its own flight capability hampered every time it lands or launches a plane using that deck, and the uneven use would lead to nonuniform wear on the engines.[[note]]The comics' version of the 'carrier is often just as impractical. Or even more so.[[/note]]

* Justified in the 1984 KillerRobot movie ''Film/{{Runaway}}'', where the reason for the lack of safety rails on a construction site is that only robots work up there. Knowing that the hero suffers from vertigo, it's where the BigBad chooses to make a hostage exchange. Played straight, though, when the button to reset the elevator turns out to be ''underneath'' it, so Ramsey has to climb under the lift platform while hundreds of stories up.

* The ending of ''Film/WhiteHeat'', starring James Cagney, is a fight scene that takes place in a chemical plant in Long Beach, CA. This one is somewhat justified in that there was a firefight where pipes and tanks were hit, and Cagney's character randomly turned several valves in an attempt to cause distractions.

** You would also think Hammond would keep a well-armed security force on standby in case any dinosaurs escape, but nope. The park as depicted in the film appears to have no full time security guards; the novel does have some but it's not stated that they're armed with firearms or otherwise. The game warden Muldoon does seem to have access to pistols and some longarms in his armoury, and has his animal control team arm up for whenever a ''Velociraptor'' is moved in or out of a cage. In the novel, Hammond even pitches ten kinds of fits about having any weapon ''on the island at all'' that can injure or kill the dinosaurs! Apparently, tranquilizers [[SarcasmMode are sufficient]]. On the other hand, the game warden Muldoon does manage to negotiate the purchase of a [=LAW=] rocket launcher for contingencies.

** ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' plays it straight, however. The helicarrier may be a marvel of engineering, but one has to wonder what goes on behind the scenes at SHIELD, since no one seems to have realised that angling the flight deck out over one of the four rotors holding the carrier aloft is an ''astoundingly'' bad idea. Of course, we see later on in the film that it is possible to slow down the rotors, and the 'carrier can fly on just three. But that still means it's designed to have its own flight capability hampered every time it lands a plane, and the uneven use would lead to nonuniform wear on the engines.
*** Additionally, these are four immensely powerful rotors -- powerful enough to, when activated, expel ''hundreds of thousands'' of liters of ocean water out the turbines in order to lift the Helicarrier out of the water, and ''then'' keep it aloft. They must gulp down an incalculable volume of air from directly above! Yet people standing on the landing strips can basically lean over the edge (which has no railing) to look at them, and risk getting sucked into them.

* The ''Franchise/StarWars'' galaxy is filled with indoor, 500+ foot deep (and often completely pointless) chasms that have no guardrails.

** In a New Hope, we see two Imperial officers stationed on a tiny platform next to a death without a railing... and also are completely unshielded from the ''Death Star's Laser''.

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Film/IRobot'' when [[spoiler:Creator/WillSmith, trying to get to the brain of the villain computer, complains about the stupidity of a design involving narrow catwalks suspended over a 100+ -story shaft. Especially when trying to cross while being attacked by hundreds of {{killer robot}}s]].

** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Etri's forge is ignited by a concentrated beam of solar energy so powerful it can melt just about anything. If the focusing lenses don't open, there's a set of levers that can be pulled to manually open them, which close the moment you stop pulling on them. In order to pull the levers, you must ''stand directly in the path of the beam the lens creates''.

* The ''Film/Batman1989 '' drops gangster Jack Napier into a giant bubbling vat full of... something to turn him into ComicBook/TheJoker. Justified: Jack turns on a bunch of the machines and makes them run at unsafe levels to create a diversion for the cops. The vat full of [[TechnicolorScience green acid]]? You can see it being filled in the background of several shots, as a result of these actions. LaserGuidedKarma indeed.

** The Geonosian Droid Factory from Film/AttackOfTheClones Is this even by the [[UptoEleven standards of the galaxy in-universe]]. ConveyorBeltODoom, retractable platforms, giant swinging arms that can decapitate a person, and giant vats for carrying molten being carried on rail located right next to more of the obligatory platforms with no guardrails. Despite this it is shown having a manual override that actually works and most of it is [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as A. The factory has been closed down for centuries so it naturally would not be up to date in terms of safety standards. B. The [[AristocratsAreEvil Geonosian Aristocrats]] exhibit a WeHaveReserves mentality, C. Said Reserves are conditioned solely to serve those Aristocrats and don't about the lack of safety standards. D. The entire operation is illegal. and E. The above mentioned retractable platform is meant to serve as a launchpad for the winged overseer drones to use.

** Pod racing on Tatooine is recklessly dangerous even by the standards [[UpToEleven of the Star Wars Universe]]. No safety inspection before the race, [[NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught many places along the track you can ram other racers off the road and not be seen]], the course winds through hazards like canyons and Sand People territory (who just love to shoot at the races), any pod, no matter how [[TheAllegedCar much of a death trap]], is accepted, and even children are allowed to participate. Did we mention the part where the pods are basically two jet engines held together by a magnetic grid and rubber?

* ''Film/{{Elysium}}'': Max's foreman telling people to do really dangerous things, like go inside a radiation chamber to fix a door jam, or get replaced. Worse still is the fact that said radiation chamber has no emergency shutoff button, not even from the outside. Justified in that OSHA probably doesn't even exist anymore. One particular thing to note is that the radiation chamber, once active, does have sensors to detect if something is in there that shouldn't be. It doesn't ''turn the chamber off'', of course, more like "BTW, you're cooking some dude."
** The whole thing is made pretty ironic due to the intercom in the factory constantly blaring on about working safe.

* In ''Film/WestSideStory2021'', Tony climbs up the fire escape, only to find that the grate on Maria's balcony is locked. He lampshades how unsafe this is.

-->'''Maria:''' ''Si''. There's no key.
-->'''Tony:''' Well, that's against the law. You ought to report that.

-->'''Maria:''' ''(laughs)'' There's no key.