History Main / NoOSHACompliance

* While ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' simply skips the Gym puzzles feature in the games, 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.

* 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.

* NoOSHACompliance/RealLife

Note that if a villain plants a few explosives in such a place, it transforms from a mundanely unsafe facility into an instant DeathCourse. See also EternalEngine and MalevolentArchitecture (the video game equivalents), ConstructionZoneCalamity (when this trope is PlayedForLaughs) and HomicideMachines (when a horror film does this with everyday household appliances). NoSeatbelts and RailingKill are subtropes.

Of course, this means the hero and the villain will immediately rush into the heart of such a complex to have their final battle, instead of just settling things in the parking lot. On the other hand, this does allow for the frequent accident of the [[RailingKill villain falling to his doom]]. Any collateral damage in the battle will invariably hit a BigRedButton, cause FailsafeFailure, and {{no one could survive that}} resulting [[StuffBlowingUp explosion]].

In short, if the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (or the local counterpart in non-American 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.

And oddly enough, for all the lack of safety compliance, the factory's door will be unlocked or easily entered, and there will be ''[[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy not a single night watchman]]'' in the obviously dangerous facility.[[note]]Of course, would ''you'' want to wander around such a place for hours at a time every night?[[/note]] Usually all the crushing, spiking, and burning machinery will be left to run unattended; but if this is not the case, they will all be activated by a single exposed switch placed on a bare stretch of wall.

Industrial complexes in which climactic battles are fought always seem to have been built with a callous disregard for the safety of workers. Inside, you're likely to find narrow catwalks with simple rope/cable handrails (or none at all) that are hung by what might as well be knitting yarn over open bubbling vats of [[HollywoodAcid green acid]], massive exposed machinery flailing everywhere without protective covers, safety switches in awkward places far from the machinery they control (assuming that there ''are'' any safety switches or that [[FailsafeFailure they're even functional]]), [[LavaPit blast furnaces glowing fiery red]], and other hazardous conditions so terrifying that any sane person would probably insist on a six-figure danger bonus to even go near the place.

* 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.

Industrial complexes in which climactic battles are fought always seem to have been built with a callous disregard for the safety of workers. Inside, you're likely to find narrow catwalks with simple rope/cable (or no) handrails inevitably hung by what might as well be knitting yarn over open bubbling vats of [[HollywoodAcid green acid]], massive exposed machinery flailing everywhere without protective covers, safety switches in awkward places far from the machinery they control (assuming that there ''are'' any safety switches or that [[FailsafeFailure they're even functional]]), [[LavaPit blast furnaces glowing fiery red]], and other hazardous conditions so terrifying that any sane person would probably insist on a six-figure danger bonus to even go near the place.

* In ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'', mention is made of an incident in the preliminary Gundam Fights where a competitor was disqualified for repeatedly positioning himself so that his opponents could not fire at him without risking hitting the spectator stands (this was technically not against the rules, but the judges decided that they would rather have their country represented by someone going out of his way to protect civilians rather than one who went out of his way to endanger them). After which he went on a temper tantrum and blew up several stands deliberately. After having mecha tournaments every four years for the past sixty, it had never occurred to anyone to not have mecha fights be a spectator sport, or to at least take some sort of safety precautions to reduce the risk to the audience in the event of shots being fired in their general direction. Then again, the only safety-related rule in the tournament is that nobody is to target other people's cockpits ''on purpose''.

* In ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'', mention is made of an incident in the preliminary Gundam Fights where a competitor was disqualified for repeatedly positioning himself so that his opponents could not fire at him without risking hitting the spectator stands. After which he went on a temper tantrum and blew up several stands deliberately. After having mecha tournaments every four years for the past sixty, it had never occurred to anyone to not have mecha fights be a spectator sport, or to at least take some sort of safety precautions to reduce the risk to the audience in the event of shots being fired in their general direction. Then again, the only safety-related rule in the tournament is that nobody is to target other people's cockpits ''on purpose''.

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* Brought up in WebSite/{{Cracked}}'s [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17392_6-sci-fi-movie-conventions-that-need-to-die.html 6 Sci-Fi Movie Conventions (That Need to Die)]] article. Sure, electronics spewing sparks when the ship's hit is dramatic, but [[FridgeLogic why does the ship have such dangerous electronics in the first place?]]

--->'''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]].
* ''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.]]
* 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]].)
* It's explicitly mentioned in ''Literature/InGoldenWaters'' that a lot of the seasteads were built with little in the way of safety measures and oversight. Inevitably, this gets a lot of people killed both during construction (mention of dead construction workers is frequent) and after it (when things inevitably start breaking down).
* 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 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!"
* Defied in ''Roleplay/RubyQuest''. That giant room with the deadly spinning fans? They have guardrails. Pretty tall guardrails, coming up to an average human's chest. They're explicitly stated to be at least regulation height, if not higher. Thus, that patient "Stitches" still ended up getting killed by the fans was very suspicious to the staff (also because Stitches was "very familiar with the area" even when [[spoiler:he was "still blind"]], mind you), which in turn tips them off to the fact that [[spoiler:Ruby was a murderous psycho]].
** Played straight with most of the automatic doors, especially the "Z-hatch", which close with enough force to ''decapitate''
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}:

* In ''WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld'', 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.

* 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.

* In ''WebAnimation/{{HFIL}}'' and its prequel series ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', Snake Way is this thousands of miles long, winding path over Hell with no guardrails. Raditz complains about it as him falling off Snake Way led to him being recaptured, and Goz tells him they're are on back order.
* A good number of the disasters covered by WebVideo/FascinatingHorror took place before OSHA was founded, and could have been mitigated or completely prevented had ''any'' safety standards been followed.

* NoOSHACompliance:

** Conversed in Volume 6. Yang and Blake are searching a dilapidated farmstead for some means of transport that may make their journey through the wilderness to Argus a bit easier. Upon spotting a rusting old tractor that has clearly seen better days, she jokes about how unlikely that vehicle is to be street-legal and then moves on.
** Deconstructed in Volumes 7-8. The heroes quickly discover that Mantle's defences are sub-par and unable to stop the Grimm from entering the city to attack. There is a hole in the wall that cannot be repaired because General Ironwood is redirecting the construction materials to a secret military project hidden in the tundra. Ironwood has massively upgraded all of Atlas' security, but neglected any of Mantle's. The villains are able to exploit the security deficiencies in an effort to try and turn the two cities against each other. [[spoiler:Mantle's deficiencies include the security systems, which were designed by Watts and have been so neglected by Atlas that he can easily hack it as it's still using his original code. The BigBad's plan was counting on Ironwood making the same mistake all Atlesians make -- neglecting Mantle's infrastructure and software [[TheParanoiac even when he's paranoid]] -- for it to work, and it does. Characters point out the flaws in neglecting Mantle's infrastructure with increasing urgency until it finally leaves Ironwood abandoned by his allies and at the mercy of his enemies.]]

** In Volume 6, Yang and Blake are searching a dilapidated farmstead for some means of transport that may make their journey through the wilderness to Argus a bit easier. Upon spotting a rusting old tractor that has clearly seen better days, she jokes about how unlikely that vehicle is to be street-legal and then moves on.
** In Volumes 7-8, the heroes quickly discover that Mantle's defences are sub-par and unable to stop the Grimm from entering the city to attack. There is a hole in the wall that cannot be repaired because General Ironwood is redirecting the construction materials to a secret military project hidden in the tundra. Ironwood has massively upgraded all of Atlas' security, but neglected any of Mantle's. The villains are able to exploit the security deficiencies in an effort to try and turn the two cities against each other. [[spoiler:Mantle's deficiencies include the security systems, which were designed by Watts and have been so neglected by Atlas that he can easily hack it as it's still using his original code. The BigBad's plan was counting on Ironwood making the same mistake all Atlesians make -- neglecting Mantle's infrastructure and software -- for it to work, and it does.]]
** In Volume 8, Central Command is run by rows of computer operators. A massive poster warns staff to never bring food and drink into the room. When May trips up a worker to create a distraction, the worker's coffee goes flies across two computers to land in the lap of another worker. The two computers spark out, and the one of the affected workers begins ranting about the fact that "Bill" is always violating the sign, has a terrible work ethic and even violates the unwritten social code of not heating fish in a communal microwave. Later in the volume, Bill can be seen sat at his desk. Not only is he still employed, but he has yet another mug of coffee in his hand, which he drops again when an emergency broadcast suddenly activates.

* 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.]]

* 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.

-->Labcoats, gloves, goggles; these things aren't just there to look good / [[HotScientist sexy]] / nerdy (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]].]]

* 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.

-->Labcoats, gloves, goggles; these things aren't just there to 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 typically tends to bug the LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}} when they play ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' [[Machinima/YogscastMinecraftSeries together]]: