Should we be able too ?

[Etienne]

I don't know workplace health and safety laws in England... But here, at least, you can't renounce your right to sue your employer, or receive worker's comp. Even if you do something extremely stupid, like, say... Ride a forklift while it's being lifted from a barge alongside, then lowered into the lower hold of a ship... Your employer is still liable. Unless they can prove beyond any doubt that they took every measures possible to prevent you from getting injured.

So AFAIK, if you get injured in the course of duty, your employer is liable. Even if you signed a waiver.

But I'm no lawyer, and I don't live in the UK.

Etienne

[kiwi_2005]

Yes you should be allowed to choose providing you know what could happen.

Recently in our town a dustman's son got run over by the truck, the driver was the father. It was a sad day as they were well known in the area i use to leave them a crate of beer every christmas. But yeah the son was picking up a rubbish bag threw it in the bin then jumped back on the side, only to slip and fall in front of the back wheel his dad then drove straight over him killing him.

The town put up a cross where the accident happen, the father still drives the rubbish truck but he wont do the street where his son died, the company understand this and get another truck to do the street on there way back to the depot.