Christ on a stick!
If they did that where I work, the management themselves would close the place down.

I'm no health and safety nut, but quite a bit of it is simply common sense and there to protect people using machines like these.
(dchurch bah, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 10:58, 2 replies)

There's nothing common about common sense.
That's how the old saying goes, I think?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 11:49, closed)

More common than you would think, especially with older machinery in smaller engineering firms
or at least it was, not done any engineering in about 15 years now, but I've used massive decoilers, swage presses and punches that had safety stuff removed because it simply wouldn't work with it on. In fact I used to crawl inbetween the leaves of a 50ton swager which were propped up by blocks of wood to maintain it or get stuck bits of metal out.
Of course there was always big panic when H&S were due.
( Nuisance Value, Wed 13 Jul 2011, 23:45, closed)