Industrial safety regulations impose restrictions on how you may treat others, not on how you may treat yourself. Those regulations coerce employers into treat

Industrial safety regulations impose restrictions on how you may treat others, not on how you may treat yourself. Those regulations coerce employers into treating their employees well (which is not bad[1]). If you were to privately, in a manner that did not put others at risk, conduct an experiment in your backyard that violated those very safety regulations, I doubt you would get in trouble for it. [1] It's not as bad a thing for government to regulate how individuals treat each other, as it would be if it regulated (passed laws around) how an individual treated himself/herself.