There use to be a time when gas stations offered as a consumer choice: full service, that is a designated person would pump your gas, clean your windows, check your oil gauge, and so on, while still offering self service at a lower price point, before eventually the lower price crowded out the need for a full service option. This means that in modern times with the only exceptions being two States, Oregon and New Jersey, there is nothing but self service, so, yes, even little old ladies, have to pump their own gasoline.
Although gas stations have existed for decades and decades we see that in this era of constant warnings, litigation, and governmental overreach that the list of warnings at gas stations seems to have increased substantially. For instance, the only two warnings that you really need at gas stations, are to not utilize an open flame near the gasoline fumes while pumping gas and to be wary of static electricity and its ability to create a spark that could ignite the gasoline fumes into a possible fire. Both of these warnings are pertinent and make sense with most people intuitively understanding that fires and gasoline are not a prudent combination, whereas many people are pretty much blithely unaware of any danger of static electricity but should be.
However, in an era where obfuscation replaces common sense, there are warnings for all sorts of meaningless things of which none of them help the safety of people at gas stations. For instance, some States place the age that you can legally pump gasoline at 16 years old, which is ridiculous, as if you can't treat your own children as free labor and give them a few simple tasks to do from time-to-time; I mean at what point are children going to actually stand up on their own two feet? In addition, there are the ubiquitous not to talk on your cell phone warnings, but there are no known cases of cell phones creating any fires at a gasoline station; and whatever are people supposed to do when pumping gas, anyway, especially in States in which you aren't allowed to talk or text on your cell-phone while driving?
If gas stations were really concerned about more safety, than as a matter of course, they would add static discharge pads to their gas stations and would take the means to make sure that gasoline vapors from their pumps were both regularly maintained as well as minimized. Instead, we get warnings that go on and on and on, to which sort of like prescription medicine warnings, people are just going to ignore them because of their length and overall lack of applicability.
Of course, if pumping fuel really is that dangerous, than perhaps the government should eliminate self service, and replace it with nothing but full service stations, while this would mean that the price of gasoline would go up by a small percentage, it would also bring some employment back to the gas station industry, as well as probably cutting down on loitering, fighting, cursing, and just general rudeness that one will see at certain gas stations from time-to-time. It would also be in keeping with the governmental nanny state, and ties in well with the government's overriding objective of trying to keep its population forever fearful, and thereby necessitating more governmental oversight and control.