It's an interesting problem. I think a lot of the complaints about the tighter safety requirements is that it's often questionable if they're actually making you any safer. I know that sure seems to be the case with a lot of the requirements we get. Some of the people making these things seem to think that the more tedious and expensive the process, the safer you must be.

We got a laser partition screen for an already enclosed laser that only obscures it from a certain angle. If the laser were to randomly fly out of its enclosure like a loose fire-hose shooting pulses all over (since that's the only scenario I can think of where it's current enclosure wouldn't be good enough) then I don't know how that screen is supposed to help.

Fun fact about the fire-resistant lab coats we need too: apparently the flame resistant lab coats are more flame-retardant than the regular ones in the sense that the regular one burns more if you take a lighter to it. Apparently they were not tested to see if the flame-retardant ones protect you any better if flammable or pyrophoric solvent is spilled on them. And that's, you know, sorta the main concern when you put one of these things on.