35 Times Employees Ignored Safety Precautions As If They’re Invincible

Workplaces usually have rules and policies in place to ensure employee safety, and government bodies regulate these practices, expecting every organisation to comply. However, employees often notice minor infractions in their work environment that could cause bodily harm often being ignored by management. People online have been venting about specific health and safety protocol failures in their offices that will likely only be addressed after someone gets hurt and files a lawsuit.

#1 Right Above The Toilet. Good Thing I’m Not 6’1”

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#2 No Words

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#3 Only The Strong Shall Survive

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#4 Don’t Worry, Got The Safety Squints On, Boss

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#5 Well, This Would Be Inconvenient

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AED at my school. Yes, I reported it. Next time I go to class i’ll be checking to see if they fixed it.

#6 This Is How I Die

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#7 Emergency “Exit” In A Friend’s Office Building. First Time They Opened It Was During A Fire Alarm

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Germany. The sign on the inside even says “Brandschutztür” – meaning “fire security door.”

A fire security door is not the same as an emergency exit. Fire security doors are supposed to contain a fire. So the door is doing its job – but the emergency exit sign should not be there.

#8 Sharps Container? These People Apparently Never Heard Of One… The Needles Were Poking Out Of The Box

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Closed box, saw a needle sticking out of the cardboard, opened to inspect. Started looking for employment elsewhere shortly after.

#9 In About 2 Seconds He Is About To See How Fast He Can Turn Off That Chainsaw

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#10 First Day Working The Port. Safety Wants To Talk To Me, Probably To Tell Me How Good Of A Job I’m Doing

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#11 The More You Look The Worse It Gets

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#12 Neither Of Them Are Wearing Goggles

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#13 Emergency Power Shut Off For A Machine Shop Class With 25+ Manual Lathes, 5 Manual Mills, And 4 CNC Mills Is Behind A Bookshelf

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It is the Tucson High School machine shop; we are the only major high school with any sort of shop classes.

#14 I’m Panicking

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#15 Apparently The CN Tower Is Really High Up

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#16 Not Sure If A Bar Is The Right Place For This, But This Is The Back Office Of My Sister’s Job

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From what I remember about the place when I worked there, the owners were never around and the GM drinks about a bottle of white wine a night.

#17 Meirl

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#18 I Took This Pic. Days Like This Put The Fear In Me. I Think I Have PTSD From Being In So Many Bad Positions

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Was doing some sewerline. This is how I learned to lay pipe. Unsafe stuff like this was hard on me mentally. 5 years of this will cause so many bad dreams.

#19 Working Class Hero

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#20 Only Entrance To My Current Job Site

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#21 Today At Work

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#22 My Coworker Said We Have To Get The Job Done. I Eventually Talked Him Out Of Climbing This

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#23 Men On This Roof With Harnesses, But The Harnesses Aren’t Actually Attached To Anything

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I watched them walk up and down, and they are just dragging the ropes around; they definitely are not attached to anything.
So they could get seriously injured by a fall. The ropes are tangling up and becoming trip hazards.
Not sure if they are just that stupid, or their management didn’t actually ensure they had a way to even secure the harnesses before sending them up.

#24 It’s Too Hot

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#25 We Had 5-6 People Scrape/Cut Themselves Walking Past This Exposed Thermostat, So We Finally Complained… Came In This Morning To This Solution

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#26 Found In A Graduate Electrical Engineering Lab

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#27 A Guy Just Came To Fix The AC (13th Floor In Suzhou, China)

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#28 Fire In The Building? 911 Operators Will Let Everyone Know

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#29 Safety Squints Activated

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#30 Probably Rocking A Solid Safety Squint

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#31 Changing A Light Bulb

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#32 An Electrician In Denmark Gets Fired After Publishing Pictures Of The Bad Safety At Metro Construction Site

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An electrician in Denmark gets fired after publishing pictures on FB of how bad the safety is on the metro construction sights he has been working under the past year. He was fired after having some time off in January due to sickness, and later heard from colleagues that the real reason he got fired was that the company didn’t want him to ruin anything for them.