OSHA is not the ultimate authority, it's just one country's solution to the problem.
I don't have a problem with rules being applied to me, I just see it as dysfunction that any organization gets to the point that they need a significant set of rules. The more rules, the worse the dysfunction, typically. Exceptions include life-critical applications, where the entire existence of the company hinges on stripping human error from the product. But even then, more rules ≠ less problems.
This even works introspectively; it's a bit like fitness tracking. Is a little bit of data helpful? Yes. But who is out there reading into every time they got sick and missed a few thousand steps, or thinking about every utterance and flatulence during sleep and how it signals an overall moral failing needing to be addressed? People with mental disorders, that's who.
I don't have a problem with rules being applied to me, I just see it as dysfunction that any organization gets to the point that they need a significant set of rules. The more rules, the worse the dysfunction, typically. Exceptions include life-critical applications, where the entire existence of the company hinges on stripping human error from the product. But even then, more rules ≠ less problems.
This even works introspectively; it's a bit like fitness tracking. Is a little bit of data helpful? Yes. But who is out there reading into every time they got sick and missed a few thousand steps, or thinking about every utterance and flatulence during sleep and how it signals an overall moral failing needing to be addressed? People with mental disorders, that's who.