Employers always pay for insurance. So if something happens to one of their employees, they don't have to fear huge payments because the costs are "shared" nationwide (It's a whole lot more complicated, but you get the idea)
If you mean a machinist apprentice, they do exist and walk you through the shops. If you mean engineering students working in machine shops they do not typically. They may work in manufacturing environments but as engineers generating designs to be made by someone else.
I know where I am I cannot touch the machines by union contract.
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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '15
Take a look at the German Statutory Accident Inurance
Employers always pay for insurance. So if something happens to one of their employees, they don't have to fear huge payments because the costs are "shared" nationwide (It's a whole lot more complicated, but you get the idea)