If O’Brien is perpetually confused it’s probably because he has to keep a space station engineers by the Cardis running. I would be perpetually confused too, what with the plasma injectors being the way that they do and all
And apparently he’s the only one who can do actual work, and by work I mean everything, from fixing the future version of your apartment’s gas stove, to making sure the whole space station doesn’t explode for whatever reason this week.
It only explodes if you upload everyone’s brains into the main computer, or you go look in a random section you’ve never been in before, and how often is that going to happen.
Anyway the most dangerous thing on board is absolutely definitely the turbo lift, someone’s getting their fingers cut off or is falling down the hole in the bridge.