Guys, I am going against the grain with the removal of the battery/fuse for the sole pupose of protecting an airbag deployment.
Some of you will have some electrical background and should know that an airbag requires the airbag control unit to "energize" the pyrotechnic device which causes the airbag to be deployed. Pulling out the connector to the airbag unit is not going to tell the airbag control unit to trigger it. All it will do it tell the ACU that the airbag is missing and will show up a fault code on the dash.
So why i still recommend people disconnect the battery, it's not to stop deployment, it is to prevent fault codes showing up on your dash.