One day, I was at my engineer’s work place, I noticed his chair had a broken wheel. Immediately I wanted to tell him about the hazard. But I remembered that under the architect/engineer contract (AIA document 111), I have no contractual responsibility to work site safety of an engineer office. In order to reduce my liabilities, I couldn’t and didn’t say anything. Before the engineer sat down, I immediately left the engineer’s office, went back to my office and typed up a letter addressed to the owner of the engineer firm. I faxed it to my lawyer to confirm that the letter is legally found. I mailed the following memo to the engineer firm that I visited earlier.
“Dear Sir, It is not my duty to enforce job safety at your work site, but I can’t help to notice that one of your employees has a chair with a broken wheel on April 1, 2005. Please follow standard OSHA guideline to provide proper safety for your employee. Please sign the attached document to relive me from any future litigation in regarding to any injury resulted from my general observation that I was unintentionally conducted during my office visit. Thank you.”
