Exposed gears/chain

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Originally Posted by efoote868

While I generally agree with this sentiment, it won't work in the real world if you're being audited by OSHA.

There is no requirement to comply with OSHA standards as a FRC team.

I'm all for safety but adding guards is often not actually more safe than teaching students real safety (like never working on the robot without it being disabled, or even better, off entirely).

The fact that volunteers will often invent or incorrectly interpret rules requiring changes to the robot (in this case adding guards) is a source of continual frustration. Nowhere in the manual does it say all pinch points must be protected from insertion of a finger. Obviously anything egregiously unsafe should be addressed, but that's not what is generally being discussed here.

People will reply with "But safety!!!", but there is only so much you can do to protect people from themselves and at a certain point the safety theater becomes a burden for everyone.