You don't even need to get to the point of breaking the rules for it to be a problem. This is stupid human factors type stuff.

The filthy capitalists don't want their oil rigs going kaboom and their expensively trained workers having injury downtime. There is a natural incentive alignment to some extent here.

And then the useful idiots show up, and rather than fostering that alignment they put their thumb on the scale and they change the calculations. The filthy capitalists crunch the numbers and they realize that over the life of the oil rig and a fleet of some number of them they'll make more money spewing alarms at the guys running the place until their eyes glaze over. Sure he'll miss something important blowing up the works with loss of life and limb 2/<big number> amount of the time instead of 1/<big number> if you'd buuuuut, you'll lose less money that way than if you tune the system so that every alarm means something and get dinged by the OSHA people every time someone gets lightly scalded (or some other routine but mild danger of the workplace) because you turned that alarm off so as not to fatigue people. You see this goddamn fact pattern all the time. Machinery beepers, hazard signage and barriers, etc, etc, it never fucking ends.

Great job guys, Mission Accomplished (TM). When everything is a hazard nothing is.