Yes, it did sound a bit dismissive, but I don't think it was meant that way.
Ryan is very focused on making safety a member responsibility and then guiding and supporting members to meet this significant responsibility. If we create too many "safety nets" we likely risk members making dangerous assumptions about their safety and the safety of others. Sometimes he just has to bluntly say to people they messed up, and that they have to fix that. Sure the community might help, but the focus must be on the person who messed up. That's how they learn.They have to fix that, not the community..
We have already seen some good member driven work on improving safety for our more potentially dangerous machines ( Safety posters, yellow chuck key handles, safer layout of tools, greater emphasis on "clean and tidy"). Let's pursue this as members, and as you describe make it more obvious to ourselves and other members when something is not safe, wrong, or out of place. This can easily be done in parallel to the work Ryan is doing.
So yes, I would support solutions which help members to more easily and quickly assess and fix safety issues, but not "guardian angel" safety solutions.
Richard