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My work has taken me to a refinery a few times. It always made me very uneasy being in a place where they taught us to back in to parking spaces in orientation and there are "explosion proof" shelters in various places. Having watched US Chemical Safety Board videos doesn't help either.

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Backing in to parking spaces is standard clipboard warrior best practice stuff and has been for the past couple decades. It reduces backing accidents from a tiny number per huge number of man hours to a tinier number per huge number of man hours on average (not necessarily for a specific work flow, best practices are not a replacement for good judgement and evaluation of specific circumstances). It has nothing to do with the safety of a job site and has more to do with the size of the company that runs it (small companies don't tend to issue blanket policies for that kind of stuff).