Some departments regularly do 10,000+ rotations per day, sometimes twice as much during Christmas which shouldn’t be done by humans. They report it as a fraction of the work to the board that governs health and safety here. Imagine making a bath bomb and then imagine making bath bombs for 8hrs.

They have added machines in the last 2-3 years to help but not enough and they all constantly break. I have seen machines fall on people and people get badly burned or lose part of their fingers from not being taught how to lock/tag them out while servicing them or finishing a product run. Lots of machines are held together by elastic bands or stickers and I have seen rolling lines operating with Fun wedged into them to keep them working. We are legally not supposed to work with broken machines yet everything is constantly broken because they use machines that are not supposed to be used for the materials we push through them.

Supervisors & management are not on the floor most of the time and locking out machines takes too long so they just don’t do it anymore when it is required by law. When it comes down to it, our bonus is based on numbers, so supervisors & management prioritize productivity over safety and then blame workers for being injured. If you approach them with concerns they will threaten your job stability or say you are a liability.