So before I started my business I worked for my old boss for 10 years. He would always talk about being careful about stuff “because OSHA could show up” like they were some type of boogeyman. In those 10 years I never once saw anyone from any type of regulatory body.
So was my boss just being paranoid? What are the odds someone from OSHA actually would be around? have you ever dealt with them?
Slightly off topic but another reason to not fuck around with safety stuff is lawsuits and the implications thereof. I work in finance and have seen business owners that were ready to sell their business for a lot of money and retire get hit with a lawsuit that probably would have have led to a not that big payout spook LPs/lenders concerned about a runaway Jury and kill the deal. Those lawsuits can drag on for years and put your retirement on hold.