As a practical measure toward better safety, I have air clamps on some machines. On the chop saw this frees up one hand, so if I have a short off cut, I hold the off cut with a push stick so that the off cut doesn't get pulled into the fence or dust chute. I've seen little off cuts become a dangerous projectile or nearly damage the saw a few times.

On the shaper and Maka mortiser I have air clamps also.

I'm setting up the Graule and have plans for building air clamps to hold down material.

For miters, I used to cut them on the chop saw, I stopped doing that a long time ago. I now cut them on the tablesaw, which I used to do by tilting the blade. Now I have a dedicated fixture which clamps to the table. The table itself slides forward. I typically cut with a dado stack so that it wastes all of the material and all of the material becomes sawdust. No flying off cut.

I rarely rip on the tablesaw, much rather use the bandsaw with feeder then run the part through the planer afterward.