so here's the thing. when my dad retired? he was doing workplace safety. A thing he was entirely well suited for, because when I was a kid he was a machinist. He's done a lot of jobs, and... it wasn't about following the rules for rules, but about using the rules for people.
When my dad retired, it was because he had cancer & needed to take the retirement package that included his existing health insurance plan, because the next contract would take that away.
Cancer he got because he worked as a machinist ➡️ toolmaker, exposed to so many harmful things. It killed him.
workplaces come in a lot of flavors. And at the end of the day, the folks who are making the money, even when they start from a good-ish place, struggle to do the right thing by their employees. Profit is a hell of a drug.