When I was young and dumb I worked at a warehouse where I and another guy were elevated about 20 feet off a concrete floor by a forklift while standing on a pallet in order to wrestle 2 200lb containers off the racks.
The supervisor below us was in crutches with stainless steel pins sticking out of the tibia and fibula on his left leg from doing the same thing a couple of weeks before.
I really like Mike Rowe’s “Safety Third” rule.
The company is (and should be imho) primarily concerned with making a profit and timeliness. Safety is third (or fourth) - and so it is the worker that must be most concerned with safety.
Of course that is sometimes difficult to get across to a 20-something “it won’t happen to me” guy. And of course we didn’t even think of the consequences in some cases.
Out on the oil rig we used diesel, soap and water to clean the equipment. Some of the guys, me included, would stand there with our oily overalls and spray ourselves down at the end of the shift with it!