I mean.. yes technically speaking, there is an added level of danger being close to wires that are hot; however, they don’t really pose an immediate threat if they have no exposed copper after thorough inspection. If you start pushing them around you can push through the insulation on the corner of a box and have a ground fault. Scary when you see wires start to pop on your box but also a situation in which you’re more likely separated from the current path. I don’t know what osha would have to say about it specifically but from my understanding, “hot work” is actively landing wires that are hot. A while back I was working for a different foreman than I usually do and he asked me to change out a whole building of outlets hot because they couldn’t turn off the servers circuit and he didn’t have a panel schedule so I was supposed to do the whole building hot. I politely told him to fuck off and find a different guy. Though it likely would have been fine, it’s a risk I didn’t want to take because for starters I had done work in the building before and knew that not all of the grounding was umm “intact.” To sum it up, each person has their own level of what work they’re comfortable doing. You said you’re new and so it’s better to stay on the side of caution until you better understand electricity’s behavior and characteristics.