The problems is that a hold harmless might help you a little bit in a liability case where the worker is the plaintiff, and it might not help at all. People use them a lot, but any lawyer knowledgable in the field will tell you they're not worth the paper they're written on. Re the 'use at own risk' type statements, those are called hold harmless agreements. It also makes his job both easier and faster, so it can potentially save you a few bucks there too. For a guy like the electrician, letting him use your lift makes his job a lot safer when he's working up near the roof where conduit is typically run, as compared to working off a ladder. Assuming the laws in SC are about the same as here, you assume a bunch of liability as a building owner for anyone on the job without comp coverage. In your case, if you're using an electrician, for example, who's a solo operator, or maybe one man and a helper, chances are pretty good he won't be covered by workman's comp. We'd typically let the general contractor designate one of his men to operate the forklift, and let them use it as needed. On good size jobs we normally kept a forklift on the site too. Never had any problems whatsoever, and that use by other trades would've totalled hundreds of hours over the years. We owned a few scissor lifts for use on our jobs, and I'd often let certain ones of the other trades use a lift if we weren't using it. Past that, they'd have half a bucket of sheet rock mud plastered all over your lift, which I know would just make you exceedingly happyĪs far as other trades, I'd use my own judgement. At least 3/4 of the ones I ever worked around didn't have a clue about working safe, so I wouldn't want to give them any excuse to blame me if one of them does a header from 15 ft.

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