History NoOSHACompliance / Film

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

* In ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheOutback'', the wildlife park Chaz works at lets people walk right up to "cute" animals, has nothing to stop people from falling into the crocodile pool other than a waist-high wall that children can easily climb over, and during his show where he shows off "the deadliest creatures on the planet", there are no barriers between him and the guests, and he even brings said deadly animals ''right up to the people in the front row'', and allows what he believes to be a frantic, angry crocodile to run around near them. If Jackie wasn’t actually a [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood really nice crocodile]], or even if they had a different crocodile in the pool, [[spoiler: Chazzie]] would have been croc food.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheOutback'', the wildlife park Chaz works at lets people walk right up to "cute" animals, has nothing to stop people from falling into the crocodile pool other than a waist-high wall that children can easily climb over, and during his show where he shows off "the deadliest creatures on the planet", there are no barriers between him and the guests, and he even brings said deadly animals right up to the people in the front row, and allows what he believes to be a frantic, angry crocodile to run around near them. If Jackie wasn’t actually a [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood really nice crocodile]], or even if they had a different crocodile in the pool, [[spoiler: Chazzie]] would have been croc food.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheOutback'', the wildlife park Chaz works at let’s people walk right up to "cute" animals, has nothing to stop people from falling into the crocodile pool other than a waist-high wall that children can easily climb over, and during his show where he shows off "the deadliest creatures on the planet", there are no barriers between him and the guests, and he even brings said deadly animals right up to the people in the front row, and allows what he believes to be a frantic, angry crocodile to run around near them. If Jackie wasn’t actually a [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood really nice crocodile]], or even if they had a different crocodile in the pool, [[spoiler: Chazzie]] would have been croc food.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheOutback'', the wildlife park Chaz works at let’s people walk right up to "cute" animals, has nothing to stop people from falling into the crocodile pool other than a waist-high wall that children can easily climb over, and during his show where he shows off "the deadliest creatures on the planet", there are no barriers between him and the guests, and he even brings said deadly animals right up to the people in the front row, and allows what he believes to be a frantic, angry crocodile to run around near them. If Jackie wasn’t actually a [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood really nice person]], or even if they had a different crocodile in the pool, [[spoiler: Chazzie]] would have been croc food.

* Most ''Franchise/JamesBond'' films contain examples of this, though it may often be justified as being part of the (super)villain's secret lair, and thus not really built with safety in mind.

** The Venice lab facility. It involves the handling of a [[DeadlyGas nerve agent]] that kills in under a minute should any of it leak, and somehow does not require the lab workers to wear [[HazmatSuit biohazard gear]] in the event of an accidental spill. There are safety precautions to ensure that the gas doesn't spread outside the room where the leak occurred, but nothing to protect the people in that room. Sure enough, the vials that Bond left in there break, the two scientists die and now Bond knows a bit more about what Hugo Drax is up to.

*** There is also a conference room built in the exhaust pit below a Moonraker shuttle. There doesn't seem to be any reason to build a conference room there, other than to have a cool scene where the table and chairs retract into the floor to protect them. Realistically you would still have to thoroughly hose down the whole place to remove all the toxic unburnt rocket fuel before using it again.

** In ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'', Bond turns off the artificial gravity of the BigBad's space station with the flip of a switch. This one might be justified, as the artificial gravity is created by rotating the station, and an easily-accessible emergency stop control might be used to prevent structural damage.

** Averted early in ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'', 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.

* In ''Film/{{Slaxx}}'', an important plot point is that Canadian Cotton Clothiers' [[PeaceAndLoveIncorporated ethical, eco-friendly branding]] is all a sham, and that they treat workers on the Indian plantations they get their cotton from just as badly as anyone else for the sake of profit. [[spoiler:The villain is the ghost of a worker who died at one of those plantations thanks to the lack of safety precautions, who [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever possessed a pair of jeans]] made with the cotton she picked and came to Canada to take her revenge on the employees and shoppers at one of CCC's boutiques.]] [[FinalGirl Libby]], who went to work for CCC because she believed in its mission of corporate responsibility, is [[BrokenPedestal horrified and furious]] when she finds out.

* The set of the in-universe show of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' has some egregious safety violations. For one thing, there is apparently no fire suppression system ''and'' the set is highly flammable -- when some torches are accidentally knocked over, it goes up like flypaper. This is on the set of a modern TV show... one imagines the unions for actors and stagehands would have been sending the studio some ''very'' strong letters afterwards.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2'', apparently nobody considered including any rails in Live Corp's new factory. Especially egregious considering that they are present within Live Corp's headquarters shown earlier in the film.
* In ''WesternAnimation/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 Kronk pulls the wrong lever. Returning from her trip to the pool, the alligator-encumbered Yzma says, "[[InventionalWisdom Why do we even]] ''[[InventionalWisdom have]]'' [[InventionalWisdom that lever?]]" ([[BrickJoke Kuzco would also like to know]].)
** This is also played with in [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool 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.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestVersusTheCyberInsects'', Zin's asteroid base is pretty much your standard supervillain death trap with high, suspended walkways without handrails suspended over hundred foot chasms. He ''does'' have handrails over his ethanol vats, but no lids on them.
* The machine Victoria is working on at the start of ''WesternAnimation/TheSteamEnginesOfOz'' is one that obviously requires regular maintenance (after all, that's her job), so surely it would have made more sense to design it so that all parts that will need replacing can be accessed without the mechanic having to climb up the outside of the machine with no ladders or safety lines, and over the top of exposed whirring gears? Or, at least, have some way of turning the machine off while it is worked on?
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/WallE WALL•E]]'', 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 is to just ''incinerate'' it all), they do have very good safety standards. The ''Axiom'''s trash compactor gives ample warning before it sends the garbage into space (even though no human could realistically get down there, and the doors close before the trash is sent off), the garbage chutes have covers over them, there is a ton of safety features on the escape pod (seat restraints, flares, flotation devices, fire extinguisher), and there are manual emergency door overrides that for once ''actually work.''

** ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' averts this, as the smelting factory here has plenty of guardrails, with the only spot without them intended for lowering objects into a vat. The factory is also evacuated when a liquid helium tanker crashes into it, with one worker hitting the alarm and everyone immediately running for it.

* The set of the in-universe show of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' has some egregious safety violations. For one thing, there is apparently no fire suppression system ''and'' the set is highly flammable--when some torches are accidentally knocked over, it goes up like flypaper. This is on the set of a modern TV show... one imagines the unions for actors and stagehands would have been sending the studio some ''very'' strong letters afterwards.

** In the book most of these things can be explained by the fact that Hammond is basically a scam artist who tricked people into investing. Despite his claims to the contrary a lot of the park has been built cheaply, or simply hasn't been finished. Also, the disastrous lack of staff can be explained by his desire to keep the park a secret until it opened. A necessity considering that he is playing fast and loose with the law.

** 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.

** There are poisonous — but ''very pretty''! — plants everywhere throughout the facilities, from the Visitor Center landscaping (within reach of guests, including children) to the animal enclosures, where the park's prized dinosaurs could consume them. In the novel, Ellie even lampshades the stupidity of having an incredibly poisonous plant around the pool. This plant is so toxic you can get sick just from ''touching'' it.

*** The ''Indominus'' is kept in a pen with severely deficient security cameras — it can easily hide from them at its leisure — and security is staffed by a single, inattentive, out-of-shape guard. The pen itself, while admittedly meant to be temporary, has neither the moat of its predecessors nor a double-door access corridor like the current raptor pen does, so the ''Indominus'' only needs to slip out one door to break free.

* In ''Film/LetTheRightOneIn'', fourth-floor hospital windows can be opened — by the patient from the inside, no less! [[spoiler:Shockingly, someone falls to his death.]] Even in 1980s Europe, windows in hospitals were permanently closed to prevent suicide, or sometimes people getting in.

** There is, however, a very practical reason for all those narrow rail-less bridges across bottomless pits — they force any attacking army into an easily-defended chokepoint which has no cover whatsoever from arrow fire.

*** 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 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.

** The Wonka-Mobile covering everyone in foam and sending them through a car wash. [[labelnote:Fun Fact]]This actually harmed the actors as well; the foam used--which Mat Pat says was soap but the text says was fire extinguisher foam--irritated their skin enough to require hospitalization.[[/labelnote]]

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]].

** Near the end of the movie Quaid and [[TheDragon Rictor]] fight on a large cargo elevator which ascends from a wide open room into a shaft with the walls flush right next to the edges of the elevator, with no guard rails or cage on the elevator to prevent something from getting caught in between and crushed. (Guess how the fight scene ends?)

* ''Film/TragedyGirls'': Surely having the light switch and the switch for the circular saw in the wood shop next to each other and looking identical is an accident waiting to happen? As demonstrated when Syl turns on the saw while trying to turn on the light, [[spoiler:and is later killed by the saw when she os dragged into it by an extremely dangerously located hoist]].

*** Padmé's apartment, at the top of a miles-high skyscraper, also has a huge open balcony with no railings ''in her living room''. It is, however, convenient for parking a starfighter there so that one can make a dramatic exit. Hope she wasn't planning to raise her kids in the place though. (She isn't there was an an entire scene where she discusses raising them on Naboo.)

* ''Film/RobinHood2018'': It's not clear what they are mining in Nottingham (although it is implied to iron, [[ArtisticLicenseGeology which raises its own issues]]), but the process requires sending blasts of fire skywards at regular intervals. Lack of even the most rudimentary safety measures can probably be {{Handwaved}} as it being the middle ages.

The same video, however, points out that the movie was made, and presumably takes place, shortly before OSHA was established, possibly turning these into subversions; you can't violate something that doesn't yet exist. That said, see the entry of [[WebVideo/GameTheory Film Theory]].

** In a ''Film/ANewHope'', the tractor beam's power is controlled through a panel perched on a tower over a bottomless pit. Also, the catwalk to access the controls is about a foot wide. And those two controller dudes perched on the itty bitty platform right next to the ''gigantic superlaser beam!''

** 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 Geonisian 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.

** 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 unshield from the ''Death Star's Laser''.

** ''Film/ChildsPlay3'' has the haunted house carnival ride, which has a real swinging blade capable of slicing flesh (Well, doll flesh, anyway) clean off and a giant, deadly, uncovered ventilation fan, Apparently worker safety unions don't exist in the Child's play universe.

** 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 saftey standards. B. The Geonisian 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.

*** Another scene in the film where Luke and Leia are stuck in an arch way that has an extendable bridge over another giant chasm. Not only do we never get an explanation why the Death Star needs these giant trenches inside a space station[[note]]although Creator/AlanDeanFoster's novelisation [[HandWave explained them away]] as ventilation shafts[[/note]], but we also see no sign that the extendable bridge has guard rails, nor was there anything preventing Luke from running off the edge through the open door way that didn't even have a warning about the giant trench. Luke was able to effectively "lock" the door behind him by shooting the door control/bridge extension on his side, some how deactivating the door controls on the other side, all without a manual way to extend the bridge or open the door.

*** The ''Mosasaurus'' pool, like any aquatic animal show, has stadium seating. ''Presumably'', the dino can't get out of the pool, but the climax of the movie reveals it can leap out to ground-level (that is, ''over the top of the seats'') whenever it pleases. That's a lot of crushed and[=/=]or eaten guests if it ever gets peckish during a show!

*** Guests can easily override controls of the "hamster ball" tour vehicles and venture into areas not meant to be visited. Even a supermarket's shopping cart has active locks to prevent it from rolling out of its designated range, but these hamster balls can go wherever they please.