You need government permission to braid hair in 29 US states. To arrange flowers in Louisiana. To shampoo hair in Tennessee. This cannot be filed under "safety issues". They're cartels using state power to eliminate competition and jack up prices.
Occupational licensing covered 5% of workers in 1950. Today? 30%. The Institute for Justice estimates these barriers destroy 2.85 million jobs and cost consumers $203 billion annually. Every licensed profession magically discovers why unlicensed competition threatens public safety (translation: threatens their margins).
Want to cut someone's hair without 1,500 hours of government-approved training? Criminal. Want to teach kids without an education degree from the same universities that produced our literacy crisis? Also criminal. The state doesn't protect you from bad haircuts; it protects established businesses from you.