Safety equipment can introduce new dangers too, both from correct use, and from refusal to use it For example a hard hat might be fine, people generally are h

Safety equipment can introduce new dangers too, both from correct use, and from refusal to use it For example a hard hat might be fine, people generally are happy with that - they see the benefit, they see things falling, job done. but then you add a ton more stuff which has decreasing benefit and increasing cost to use (in terms of comfort as well as time and dollars) and eventually the worker says “fuck it” and doesn’t even wear the hat. there is always a balance to be had. We do the same in domestic life - we make motor cyclists wear helmets, but not car passengers. If we made all car occupants wear a helmet we would reduce head injuries for occupants in car crashes. But that would be ridiculous.