Originally Posted by dreamnala I am the osha compliance coordinator at my organization, and my administrator disagrees with my assessment of something and wants other opinions. We have an emergency weather policy that requires workers to take action under certain weather conditions i.e. close blinds under severe thunderstorm watch. She wants to know if anyone/anyplace allows employees to not follow the policy if he/she has signed a waiver stating the organization is not responsible. 
Dreamnala
hi, I'm an occ health nurse in Scotland and we dont have the litigation issue you have in the U.S recently we had an issue regarding tools that our guys use, and the fact some of the guys are not to use tools due to vibration white finger, because there not on tools there overtime is restricted so there losing money, they offered to sign wavers saying they were aware of the damage they could be doing to themselves and that they would not hold the firm responsible, disscussions took place between myself, company doc and health and safety officer we dicided that we would still be liable even if they signed wavers as we knew we would be putting the workers in situations that would be detrimental to there health and in a court of law we would be seen as the responsible person. So think I would be careful about what i would let people opt out of.
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