Scott, have you considered any guard/safety device to prevent accidental damage if some of the hot contents should spill off of the platform ?
At some point, you must realize that a Dental Lab is not exactly a place for children. (OK, well actually my kids run around here and cut their fingers off sometimes) What's the difference between any elevator style furnace/oven and this? (Joking)
Look at the Dekema sintering furnace, or any regular porcelain oven.
Please quit talking about safty, or the next thing you know we'll all have to be dressed up in Space-suits and wearing Deep-Sea exploration breathing apparatus and then a layer of WWIII Fire and Radiation-proof padding on top of that!
I've never in my life heard of a death-by-furnace of even a little accident where someone or something was seriously injured.
(I hope Mark doesn't see this post and go start some new Safty-campaign. Then he would start a thread about how terrible the new safty laws are. LOL)
Seriously.
We in the States and in Europe could be subjected to stupid safty laws and certifications and on and on, while the other foreign competition can work with bare feet and no mask! Two extremes.
Don't add anything else into the mix this year please.
(edit....it would take quite a large drunk man to knock over this furnace.)