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Isn't the safety inspector on the workers side.
Never endanger yourself for your job unless those risks are a stipulated part of the job.
I have a love/hate relationship with workplace safety. I love a safe workplace, but many areas have stupid regulations and requirements just for the sake of looking like they're safe or because they don't want the liability of customizing things for certain situations which just makes things harder/uncomfortable for workers.
Saw a work crew the other day with hardhats on. Working outdoors, doing survey type work in an area with absolutely nothing overhead. It was completely unnecessary but required to meet "safety" rules.
That's just one example.
They're there to prevent lawsuits against the company
... by making the workplace safer.
The one preventing non-deadly lawsuits is HR.
They're there to justify their own paychecks by implementing new policies when current practices are already adequate, in order to show that they're "doing something", which is how you end up with a dogfood warehouse in rural Nebraska that has no overhead or projectile hazards requiring third party truck drivers to wear hard hats and safety glasses inside the cabs of their own trucks when on the property.
"Electrical cords may no longer be greater than 3m in length."
"Cool, cool... can I have some money to get electrical sockets added closer to the work area?"
"Lol, no."
Nnnno, they're there because the company legally has to have them, and they hate it.