I'd say it depends more on "the production" than the human. There are legal means to hold all people accountable for their actions ("Gross neglience" and all that). So you can basically always trust that people will fix what they messed up given the possibility. So if you can afford for the production to be broken (e.g. the downtime will just annoy some people) you might as well allow your team to deploy straight to prod without audits. It's not that rare actually.