You would be surprised to see how many people try to bypass safety measures just because they think it's tedious and too much work.
I've seen people do unsafe things which were against company regulations even though there was plenty of time to do it "the right way". If the company would have found out they would at the very least have received a written warning.
Lets say a job realistically takes an hour with safety equipment and a half hour without, then management verbally says they want 10 jobs completed per 8 hour shift, making some vague threats of lays offs or firings.
Places that have these incidents will have and enforce policies around cell phone use for example, they will write someone up for taking too many breaks or who isn't productive enough but they can't possibly check to see if the safety equipment is being used? Nonsense. They don't want to see what would cost them money, but have eyes wide open when they can save some.
I've seen people do unsafe things which were against company regulations even though there was plenty of time to do it "the right way". If the company would have found out they would at the very least have received a written warning.