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Dear management wunderkind
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Working hot at 120 volts is safe because the guy doing the work is an electrician and he has all the special training. Turning off the circuit is too time consuming and inconvenient since I refuse to pay anyone to properly identify the circuiting of the building and maybe a few employees would sit idle costing me even more.

Sign here ___________.

The above mentioned manager will be happy to explain to any authority why and how the electrician died or was injured and takes full responsibility for this decision to work hot.

Think the Wonderkid will sign it?

ouch, the liability card is thrown out


maybe that's good exercise here, seeing as the workers comp buck stops at big insurance , and they own everything out to about neptune....

so, where does the onus of 'blame' (because somebody has got to be guilty when we go down this road) reside when

a)management has a 'work live' request

b)the electrician has met the stipulants of 70E (or subpart S)

and there is an incident anyways?

~S~

I heard that was the reason that the signature requirement was added to 70E. Once you tell the boss that they need to sign their name to something potentially dangerous; it's amazing how they suddenly (almost magically) find a way to turn it off for you.