History Main / NoOSHACompliance

* The titular museum from ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasSecretGadgetMuseum'' hits every box on fulfilling this trope, from allowing robot exhibits capable of hurting visitors (intentionally or not) roam around freely to having no locks or safety features on display items, where any random gadgets can just be picked up and used. What's even worse is the restricted area which contains a KillerRobot Prototype that is deactivated and simply stored in an unguarded, unlocked room that literally ''anyone'' can enter and trigger by accident, which predictably happens in the climax.

* The titular museum from ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasSecretGadgetMuseum'' hits every box on fulfilling this trope, from allowing robot exhibits capable of hurting visitors (intentionally or not) roam around freely and having no locks or safety features on display items, where any random gadgets can just be picked up and used. What's even worse is the restricted area which contains a KillerRobot Prototype that is deactivated and simply stored in an unguarded, unlocked room that literally ''anyone'' can enter and trigger by accident, which predictably happens in the climax.

* In ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' there are ''no'' seatbelts in the God-Phoenix control room, even though the individual vehicles have them. This in a flying battleship that regularly gets knocked all over the place. The Jigokiller episode had Dr. Nambu standing over a BIG tank holding the plant of the title, on a narrow catwalk with waist-high rails. The rails are so damaged that he cuts his hand on one. [[spoiler:Granted, the plant didn't eat men, but it could move independently and had already been shown to throw G-4 about quite nicely. The rail crosses over with artistic license, since the blood from the cut is what kills the monster.]] Galactor bases and mechs are no better: They fit the waist-high rails and deep pits to a T, usually, and blow up if looked at wrong. (A bit of exaggeration, but not much.)

* ''Anime/YuGiOh''; Let's see, where to start...
** To begin with, Duelist Kingdom. The island (which is somewhere in the South Pacific, in the middle of nowhere) is barely adequate for a dueling tournament. No facilities to provide for food or hygienic needs (as mentioned in one episode) and the stations have ''flame thrower devices'' that the special Eliminators can access. It's a wildfire waiting to happen. The castle is a little better, although the roof and balconies (where Yugi faces Kaiba) have no guardrails or anything else that could prevent an accidental death from a fall. (Or [[StopOrIShootMyself someone trying to do it on purpose]]). And speaking of whom...

** In ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl1982 Supergirl Vol 2]]'' issue #1, [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] bursts through a factory's wall to save two workers. A bucket's guide-chain snapped and poured a shower of molten steel on them. Fortunately, she shielded them.
* From ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', we have the intrinsic-field subtractor experiment, which vaporizes anything put in the chamber. It comes equipped with a massive steel door to the chamber that closes on a timer without any interference, confirmation, or even ''presence'' of a human scientist. There are no checks done to see if any personnel is in the chamber at the time, no warning sounds or signs displayed when a timed closing is imminent, despite frequent work being done inside (why else would Dr. Manhattan have left his coat inside the chamber?). There's no way to open the door from the outside or inside, and no way to stop the disintegrator-beam from firing after the door has closed. And to top it all off, these are all explained in the comic as ''safety features''. Bear in mind, this experiment was being done back in TheFifties, and at the time, nuclear safety really was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core almost this crude]]. To be fair, the scientist responsible for this monumental stupidity realized just how much of an idiot he had been even as he was explaining it to the soon-to-be-deceased John Osterman.

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-->Labcoats, gloves, goggles; these things aren't just there to [[{{Meganekko}} look]] good / [[HotScientist sexy]] / {{nerd}}y (depending on your point of view), they are all protective gear. It won't help if you're running around showing off lingerie/skimpy outfits/your birthday suit while you [[MadScientist go about sciencing]]. [[strike:Goggles go over your eyes, [[GogglesDoNothing not on your head]].]]

This has nothing to do with [[Series/GameOfThrones the lack of approval without accompanying a certain Wildling to go beyond The Wall]]. Then again, [[CrapsackWorld their world is not a safe place either]]. It also has nothing to do with [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Oshawott]]'s PokemonSpeak.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', this is the unintentional design ethos of [[DitzyGenius Autochthon]], the [[OurTitansAreDifferent Primordial]] "god" of technology and progress. Machines practically worship him and are incapable of hurting him, so it never occurs to him to bother with even the most basic safety features. He just doesn't ''realize'' that rapidly spinning razor sharp gears, giant slamming pistons, huge arcs of lightning, deadly steam vents, and whipping monofilaments are dangerous to other people. His creations are all of impeccable quality and quite unlikely to break, but he makes no attempts at safety for human users. Autochthon's [[GeniusLoci inhabited interior]] isn't any safer.

* In ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Blaine had his Gym inside the Cinnabar Island volcano, as shown above in the anime entry. [[RealityEnsues However, many trainers complained about almost losing a Pokémon in the hot lava]], so the Pokémon League forced him to relocate to a safe traditional building.

* Ride/ActionPark was infamous for having poorly-designed and tested rides... [[RealityEnsues which, obviously, led to many injuries and some deaths.]] It's a wonder it managed to stay open for almost ''two full decades.''

* The roofs for the school buildings in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' lack proper fencing. This is especially conspicuous after the light novel revealed that [[spoiler:the principal personally knew somebody back when he was a student who died after falling off of one of those very roofs.]]

* In ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', Kurotowa is sent to investigate the God Warrior being excavated in Pejiti only for his guide to fall a couple hundred feet to his death, and he says "This is why they keep having accidents." Justified in that this is AfterTheEnd, the OSHA died along with the industrialized world in the seven days of fire.

* While ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'''s anime tends to skip the Gym puzzles, it still has some clear examples -- Koga (all kinds of ninja traps), Blaine (a dormant volcano, and later a lava pit), and Clemont (whose stand-in robot literally threw unworthy or losing challengers out of the very high Prism Tower) standing out. The last one was acknowledged and ultimately fixed.
* Spoofed in ''Manga/HimoutoUmaruChan'': Alex and Umaru play a DatingSim set in a former mining town where [[StuffBlowingUp stuff randomly blows up]] because apparently there are old sticks of dynamite just lying around everywhere. [[RuleOfFunny And nobody questions this.]]
* ''Anime/{{Trigun}}'' has multiple examples, but the biggest one is the sand steamer, a massive land ship. If the vehicle is pushed to unsafe speeds, the brake controls fail and the boiler overloads. There's no way to shut down or vent the boiler from the control room. The room with the emergency reset switch is behind a door that's shut with heavy bolts that are so stiff it takes multiple people pushing on the wrench to unscrew them, and there's at least eight. The room itself has no ventilation and becomes so hot that protective suits must be worn. It's filled with a maze of steam pipes so dense that an adult human can't fit through them. The pipes are so hot that they instantly cause second or third degree burns through heavy-duty protective garments if touched. Brilliant Dynamite Neons' plan to crack the steamer open to get at the contents of the safe seems frankly redundant, the whole ship is in danger of doing that all on its own.
* The roofs for the school buildings in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' lack proper fencing. This is especially conspicuous after the light novel revealed that [[spoiler:the principal personally knew somebody back when he was a student who died after falling off of one of those very roofs.]]
* In the anime of ''LightNovel/HeavyObject'', Grunthor gets chewed out for actually wearing a safety harness when he's assigned to do work on the upper side of an Object, while it's under motion. Specifically, he's told that "you only need a safety harness if you're actually in danger," which makes about as much sense as saying that the only time you need to be wearing a seat belt is when your car is actually crashing.

* From ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', we have the intrinsic-field subtractor experiment, which vaporizes anything put in the chamber. It comes equipped with a massive steel door to the chamber that closes on a timer without any interference, confirmation, or even ''presence'' of a human scientist. There are no checks done to see if any personnel is in the chamber at the time, no warning sounds or signs displayed when a timed closing is imminent, despite frequent work being done inside (why else would Dr. Manhattan have left his coat inside the chamber?). There's no way to open the door from the outside or inside, and no way to stop the disintegrator-beam from firing after the door has closed. And to top it all off, these are all explained in the comic as ''safety features''. Bear in mind, this experiment was being done back in TheFifties, and at the time, nuclear safety really was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core almost this crude]]. To be fair, the scientist responsible for this monumental stupidity realized just how much of an idiot he had been even as he was explaining it to the soon-to-be-deceased John Osterman.

* ''ComicBook/{{Goosebumps}}: Download and Die!'' ends with the protagonists throwing [[DemonicDummy Slappy]] into their school's telescopic gym bleachers, which start to crush him. When Slappy points out that "these rickety pieces of junk always have safety measures", a character counters with, "Not if they were made in the 90s."

* In ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', the Clans have this reputation. Since they're a caste-based society, the warriors (the top caste) have utter disdain for the safety of technicians and laborers. When one technician defected to the Inner Sphere, he was utterly shocked by both the amount of safety equipment that techs were given to do their jobs and by the fact that when there was an accident, medics were immediately rushed out to save the victim's life. Heck, the Clans were like this from their very earliest days, according to ''Historical: Operation Klondike.'' One interlude in that book is a message from a plant manager venting about the human consequences of the warriors' demand for more and more military material in the buildup to the retaking of the Pentagon Worlds:
-->''Every team on every shift has been working overtime FOR TWO YEARS. OF COURSE there's going to be accidents and quality control problems. WE JUST LOST THIRTEEN MEN because of an accident that COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED! I TOLD THEM six months ago that we needed to shut down the lines one shift every week for maintenance. And what did they do? They threatened me and my family if I didn't keep the lines running at full speed. I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner. And now that it did happen? They don't give a good goddamn that thirteen men are dead and twenty-three more are going to be in the hospital for months. They don't even realize that half a shift is GONE, or that it'll take MONTHS to get the plant operational again. We still have to make quota. They only care about their precious goddamn equipment. The HELL with the rest of us.''

* ''WebVideo/{{Hadriex}}'': From time to time he gets a good jab in when he encounters these sorts of areas, but [[http://youtu.be/djYXaA-GOAE?t=11m21s this scene takes the cake.]]
* A LetsPlay of ''[[PlatformHell The Legend of Zelda Parallel Worlds]]'' had some fairly funny discussion of this trope. Including a short parody of [[Music/LedZeppelin Stairway to Heaven]].

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation plays with this. At 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, with 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, being just the test subjects to see what [=SCPs=] do (and all of them are 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 organizations that create [=SCPs=] don't make these things safe for anyone that goes near the objects. Dr. Wondertainment's toy robot's ([[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 toy's 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.
** Having said that, we get this little gem from Agent Lombardi:
-->'''Agent Lombardi:''' Who here is willin' to die rather than give up on the mission? One, two, three, four… Okay, you five fail. Counter to what some dingbats will tell you, the latter is actually the preferred option.

** Played straight with most of the automatic doors, especially the "Z-hatch", which close with enough force to ''decapitate''.
* The Podcast/{{Rifftrax}} for ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' mentions this trope by name by pointing out how lousy Loki's makeshift headquarters is.
-->"Darn supervillains and their disregard for OSHA!"

* Radham Academy in ''Literature/{{Twig}}'' has a very simple policy in case of escaped experiments in the Bowels: Seal off the area with giant stone blocks, send in [[BlobMonster Gorger]], wait a few days, then cleanse it with fire and chemical weapons before letting Gorger out. Some scientists not getting out in time is considered regrettable but a necessary sacrifice. This reportedly happens every few weeks or so.
* Discussed in depth in the ''WebVideo/{{Unraveled}}'' video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nRC7PdNsHg "Smash Bros. owes millions of dollars in OSHA violations,"]] which tallies up all the OSHA violations in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' stages, based off the standards for construction sites (the closest equivalent, since Brian notes there's no OSHA regulations for blood sport). The stages manage to rank up to [[spoiler:17 million dollars]] in fines, largely due to repeated offenses. The only safe stage is the Boxing Ring, since it was designed to be a fighting arena.
* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Several of the exhibits in 'Untamed and Uncut' do not have the proper fencing to keep the guests and the animals separated. For example, the [[BearsAreBadNews Windear]] exhibit is only blocked off by bars.
** The carnival in 'Carneelval' also qualifies, such as the bumper cars being way too fast and the roller coaster lacking in any sort of seats. Although in that case, its because the roller coaster is actually Eel.
--->'''Amber''': This roller coaster seems a little...off, right?
--->'''Lisa''': Why? Because its missing seats and bars? Most rides tend to lack safety precautions like those anyway, carnivals are quirky like that.
--->'''Cody''': Lisa isn't wrong. Carnivals aren't really known for being safe havens.
* In ''[[WebVideo/GameTheory Film Theory]]'', [=MatPat=] not only concludes that Willy Wonka's factory from ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' was an unsafe, unsanitary death trap that would face serious OSHA penalties, but theorizes [[spoiler: Willy Wonka knew this, and given that the movie takes place about the same time OSHA was first implemented, the whole Golden Ticket contest was likely a scheme he could use to pawn off his factory onto some unsuspecting rube, where the poor sucker would be on the hook for potentially millions of dollars a day until all the issues are fixed when the laws would come into effect]].
* The ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'' for ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' includes a song to the tune “Pure Imagination” sung by Music/MichaelBolton titled, “The 'This Factory is a Lawsuit Waiting to Happen' Song.” (It is quoted fully on the [[Quotes/NoOSHACompliance Quotes page]].)
* In ''[[WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld Stampy's Lovely World]]'', the water stream in Stampy's CoolHouse connecting the top of the "Music Tower", the brewing room, the storage rooms and the nether portal isn't exactly safe, as demonstrated by the fact that [[spoiler:Chicken the dog drowned there while it was under construction]] in Episode 49, "Troubles Brewing". Finnball [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this in the honeymoon episode of ''Finnball's Kingdom'', where he takes a visit to the Lovely World with his wife.
--> '''Finnball:''' I'm surprised Health and Safety hasn't looked at this elevator.
* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', Team RWBY uses the Staff of Creation to create a portal system to evacuate the citizens from Mantle and Atlas to Vacuo. However, the being inside the Staff creates an elaborate pathway without even a set of hand rails and only warns Ruby "Do not. Fall." [[spoiler:By the end of Volume 8, Team RWBY, Jaune, Neo and dozens of Atlesian citizens plunge off the edge into TheVoidBetweenWorlds due to Cinder's actions.]]

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':

* The origin of Comicbook/TheJoker in ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' involved falling into a vat of some unspecified acid at Ace Chemicals, staining his skin and hair, giving him his distinctive appearance and driving him insane. ''Batman: The Man who Laughs'' suggests that the chemical plant in question ''was'' in trouble with [=OSHA=]. Some versions of Comicbook/TwoFace's origin also involve this trope.

** In the Franchise/{{Superman}}/Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} story ''Comicbook/KryptonNoMore'', Superman looks into the case of a plastic fabric which makes vinyl chloride -a known carcinogen- when a worker tells him of the non-existent safety standards:

** In ''Comicbook/KryptoniteNevermore'', Professor Bolden was going to test a potentially dangerous Kryptonite engine... and his only apparent security measure was Superman -the same guy who is killed by kryptonite radiation- paying attention to his experiment and saving them.

* Lampshaded in ''FanFic/{{Starcrossed}}'', where Scotty tells Geordi that in his time, warp core breaches were only created in the lab for experimentation, and the TNG basic design has been rejected as a useless and dangerous piece of TimTaylorTechnology.

* Averted in ''FanFic/SophisticationAndBetrayal'', where the protagonist's safety headgear actually saves his life in a construction accident.

* In ''FanFic/AYoungWomansPoliticalRecord'', Germanian submarines are insanely faster than their Albion equivalents and can stay submerged for far longer thanks to swapping out their original engines for reactors based on hydrogen peroxide. Those reactors also make the subs tremendously prone to exploding, to the point the fact that the one shown at a presentation for Albish observers ''didn't'' explode was treated as a small miracle. They anticipated this might happen, which is why they only built ''one'' submarine using this engine design before deciding to shelve the technology for use in naval vessels and only use it to power rockets and torpedoes. Also, Dr. Schugel and his entire line of research can produce absurdly advanced technology... which has to go through a lengthy period of refitting and additional testing so the safety features Schugel himself never contemplated can be properly implemented.

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* In ''FanFic/AYoungWomansPoliticalRecord'', Germanian submarines are insanely faster than their Albion equivalents and can stay submerged for far longer thanks to swapping out their original engines for reactors based on hydrogen peroxide. Those reactors also make the subs tremendously prone to exploding, to the point the fact that the one shown at a presentation for Albish observers ''didn't'' explode was treated as a small miracle. Also, Dr. Schugel and his entire line of research can produce absurdly advanced technology... which has to go through a lengthy period of refitting and additional testing so the safety features Schugel himself never contemplated can be properly implemented.

Note that if a villain plants a few explosives in such a place, it transforms from a mundanely unsafe facility into an instant DeathCourse. For the video game equivalent, see EternalEngine and MalevolentArchitecture. ConstructionZoneCalamity will usually employ this trope for laughs. HomicideMachines is when a horror film does this with everyday household appliances. NoSeatbelts and RailingKill are subtropes.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': As a byproduct of general Skaven recklessness and disregard for casualties, Skryre inventors take absolutely no steps whatsoever to make their laboratories and factories safe to work in -- the slaves and underlings working in Skryre facilities routinely die by the dozens from falling off of unstable platforms, getting facefuls of steam or noxious gases or being caught within exposed gears or moving parts, and larger workplace indigents can kill of hundreds or thousands of workers at once. This goes on all the time, and Skryre higher-ups don't care -- you can always get more slaves, after all.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Some of the artwork utterly embraces this trope (as do certain game mechanics -- for example, [[TanksForNothing every tank is a Sherman]]), in the name of the RuleOfCool. Oddly averted in-universe, however, as the Adeptus Mechanicus ''do'' follow safety instructions.
** They don't seem to think too much about people tripping on the exposed cables they leave all over the floor in ''every single'' piece of art they appear in, though. Repeatedly lampshaded in the Literature/CiaphasCain series.
** Depending on your average tech priest, Machine Safety may mean making things safe for their operators or making things safe for the ''[[MachineWorship machines]]''. Securing the obligatory giant industrial fan may mean putting a grating on top of it... or making it strong enough that it can shear through a human falling into it without ceasing to work.
** Played with in the Adeptus Mechanicus: it's implied that much of the rituals are actually timing methods for the various machines. They often coincide with exactly how long it takes a machine to boot up, for example. This is done in such a way that while the Techpriest might not understand what he is doing, the thought of an angry machine spirit is fear enough that he will never stray from protocol. Given that an angry machine spirit usually reacts by malfunctioning, it's unknown if the precursors to the Ad Mechs actually implemented the ritualization knowing his people will devolve into religious fanatics, or if it's just a massive misunderstanding in the first place.

** Ridgedog's efforts to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLtZHIFR5osfCI5DVbdXg_h0Uc93ELKJgc&v=g8ujWBT2UjY&feature=player_detailpage#t=296 build a working nuclear reactor]] with a third of the needed materials work... but it isn't wise to stand right next to[[note]]Said reactor was built from the surviving components of one that ''exploded''[[/note]].

** Ridgedog's efforts to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLtZHIFR5osfCI5DVbdXg_h0Uc93ELKJgc&v=g8ujWBT2UjY&feature=player_detailpage#t=296 build a working nuclear reactor]] with a third of the needed materials work... but it isn't wise to stand right next to.

In short, if the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (or the local counterpart in non-American/European settings) ever saw the place, it would be condemned in ''seconds''. Sometimes, the story will HandWave this by referring to the factory as "abandoned." However, it will never be explained why it hasn't been demolished yet, why it still receives electricity, or why all the machinery is present and operable as if it's itching to be the setting of a climactic showdown.