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Originally Posted by 3Z3VH
If they do not allow you in the garage to watch, be VERY suspect of the work they are doing. There is no OSHA standard that says you cannot be in there with them. The only restriction is that you cannot be under the car (in the pit or beneath a lifted car).
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While this is techincally correct, it's not the entire story. OSHA only covers guidelines for workers, not the general public. Insurance companies, particularly liability companies, do have much different guidelines. My first job in insurance was for a used auto dealers program for Chicago dealers. Lots of them had garages as well as car lots, and we covered those as well. Anyone that let the general public onto a shop floor was automatically declined. If we found out that you answered the question incorrectly, that was grounds for immediate cancellation. Speaking as the resident self-proclaimed insurance expert, allowing the general public into an area as busy and potentially dangerous as a typical garage is a very bad idea. All it takes is one person tripping over a misplaced wrench and tumbling into a pit to make you realize that $1,000,000 isn't that much money after all.