40 Workplace Safety Fails That Would Have OSHA Sending Everyone Home
I worker construction for several years and the amount of OSHA violations I saw was staggering. Cutting safety corners to save some time was just par for the course.
Well, that being said, I also saw a ton of workplace injuries. The safety rules are there for a reason. To keep dummies from hurting themselves or others.
The folks in these workplace safety fails don’t seem to care about that though. They saw something right in their lap or put a forklift on a bigger forklift to reach the ceiling. They don’t care the price.
1. Right Above The Toilet. Good Thing I’m Not 6’1”
2. Emergency “Exit” In A Friend’s Office Building. First Time They Opened It Was During A Fire Alarm
3. No Words
4. Don’t Worry, Got The Safety Squints On, Boss
5. This Is How I Die
6. In About 2 Seconds He Is About To See How Fast He Can Turn Off That Chainsaw
7. Sharps Container? These People Apparently Never Heard Of One… The Needles Were Poking Out Of The Box
8. Only The Strong Shall Survive
9. Neither Of Them Are Wearing Goggles
10. Not Sure If A Bar Is The Right Place For This, But This Is The Back Office Of My Sister’s Job
11. My Coworker Said We Have To Get The Job Done. I Eventually Talked Him Out Of Climbing This
12. The More You Look The Worse It Gets
13. Changing A Light Bulb
14. A Guy Just Came To Fix The AC (13th Floor In Suzhou, China)
15. Found In A Graduate Electrical Engineering Lab
16. Heater At My Job Site
17. Well, This Would Be Inconvenient
18. I Took This Pic. Days Like This Put The Fear In Me. I Think I Have PTSD From Being In So Many Bad Positions
19. We Had 5-6 People Scrape/Cut Themselves Walking Past This Exposed Thermostat, So We Finally Complained… Came In This Morning To This Solution
20. How To Hold A Ladder In China
21. Today At Work
22. Emergency Power Shut Off For A Machine Shop Class With 25+ Manual Lathes, 5 Manual Mills, And 4 CNC Mills Is Behind A Bookshelf
23. I’m Panicking
24. Working Class Hero
25. I’m Pretty Sure This Is A Safety Violation
26. Fire In The Building? 911 Operators Will Let Everyone Know
27. Apparently The CN Tower Is Really High Up
28. An Electrician In Denmark Gets Fired After Publishing Pictures Of The Bad Safety At Metro Construction Site
29. I Can’t Even, Not Pictured Is The 6 Power Strips Daisy Chained With 2 Heaters
30. Safety Squints Activated
31. So Much Wrong In This Picture
32. Counter-Balance Solved
33. Probably Rocking A Solid Safety Squint
34. Only Entrance To My Current Job Site
35. “If It Rains Harder Than X Amount, We Have To Empty This Every 5 Minutes“ – Employee Of The Month
36. Meirl
37. 9 Inch Width Of Unsecured Grating Over A 25 Foot Pit. Been This Way For Years
38. Acid You Say?
39. Something Tells Me This Breaks A Few Safety Regulations
40. First Day Working The Port. Safety Wants To Talk To Me, Probably To Tell Me How Good Of A Job I’m Doing
