The problems with these laws and those who write them is the unintended consequences. They never consider them or simply fail to see them.
The more you try to protect the idiots from themselves, the dumber the idiots become, and the less they take responsibility for themselves.
It becomes a downward spiral that ends with chaos. Wait for the licensing of operators and the systems to train them etc. It will burden business's in to bankruptcy.
I saw an auction in eBay yesterday for a Haas machining center and there was a telling note to the buyer at the end of the description of the machine. The note said that whoever the truck driver was that came to get the machine was required to be licensed to drive a forklift in the state of-------Michigan!!!! You wonder why the state and Detroit in general is going down the drain in a rapid fashion????
I was once licensed in California. That did not make me better to drive a forklift, just got more money for CAL OSHA.
I am in a small complex here in Florida now and only about 20 people here for various business's. But, we have 6 forklifts here and never any accidents.
Rules do not make safe conditions, people who know that they are responsible for their actions do.
The dumbing down of society and the loss of what used to be "Common Sense" is the result of these rules.
Sorry for the rant----Mike
Two Haas VF-2's, Haas HA5C, Haas HRT-9, Hardinge CHNC 1, Bother HS-300 Wire EDM, BobCAD V23, BobCAD V28