Only slightly sadly, at this point in my career, I am corporate. None of us want to see our people hurt.
I get the cynicism, because it’s not wrong in every case of company policy. I’m sure there is a company somewhere who wouldn’t implement any safety policy unless required by OSHA, labor demands, or insurance. It’s not my experience working with, talking to, or being a manufacturing leader that that’s the primary driver in most companies.
That might be the intention of the trainers and the participants, but it's not the (primary) intention of corporate.