A recent survey of the Institute for Occupational Safety and Health shows that supervisors often tolerate the defeating of safeguards. The result is a significantly increased number of defeated safeguards and accidents.
Between 2020 and 2022, the Institute for Occupational Safety and Health conducted a survey on the current incidence of defeating. According to the study, across all industries safeguards are defeated on around a quarter of all machines. The results of the survey also allow the conclusion that the defeating of safeguards is tolerated by superiors more often than assumed. The survey results show a statistically significant correlation between toleration by superiors on the one hand and the frequency of defeating and the resulting accidents at work on the other.
The results of the survey can be found at
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