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Waiver template
The volunteer's agreement: what the work involves, that they are a volunteer rather than an employee, and the safeguarding rules if they work with children.
Not a sample we wrote for this page. This is the document the product puts in your account, as a draft, the moment you say what you do.
Name your trade during setup — churches, nonprofits and volunteers — and this is waiting for you, already written, in your words, with the blanks marked and the points a lawyer settles flagged for one. Edit it, or paste in what you already use. It is a starting point and not legal advice: the wording is yours to change and your attorney's to check.
Read off the document itself, so this list cannot drift away from what the document actually asks for.
business name · volunteer name · role · start date · end date · role description · photo permission
7 blanks. They are filled once per send, from what you already know or from your own system through the API. They go into the document; they do not change its wording, and what somebody signed is the version they were shown.
These are the notes already written into the document, not our opinion about the law where you operate. The product refuses to send a document with one still in it, which is the point of them.
check whether volunteers are covered by workers' compensation where you operate, and whether this statement is accurate for this organisation.
check what screening the law requires for this kind of work where you operate, and what consent that screening needs.
SignSealer does not give legal advice and this document is not legal advice. What it does is put the questions in front of you before somebody signs, rather than after.
The real text, with the blanks shown as blanks and the notes above lifted out so they are read rather than skimmed past.
Volunteer Waiver and Release
Between business name and volunteer name, for volunteering as role from start date to end date.
1. What I am doing. I am volunteering. I am not an employee, I am not paid, and I am not entitled to wages, benefits or workers' compensation through this role unless business name tells me otherwise in writing.
2. The work and its risks. The role involves: role description. I understand it carries risks that care and instruction cannot remove, which may include lifting, tools, ladders, kitchens, traffic, weather, outdoor ground, and contact with the public. I accept those risks for myself.
3. What I agree to do. Follow the safety briefing and the instructions of the person leading, use the equipment provided, work within my ability and say so when something is beyond it, and report an injury or a near miss the same day.
4. Who I am working with. If the role brings me into contact with children or vulnerable adults, I will follow the safeguarding rules I have been given, I will not be alone with a child or vulnerable adult where the rules say two adults are required, and I consent to any background check business name requires.
5. Confidentiality. I will keep private anything I learn about the people business name serves, and I will not post about them or photograph them without permission.
6. Release. To the extent the law where business name operates allows, I release business name, its officers, staff and other volunteers from claims for injury, loss or damage arising from my ordinary volunteering, other than claims arising from their negligence or misconduct that the law does not let a release cover.
7. Medical care. If I am injured, I consent to first aid and to emergency medical care, and I am responsible for its cost.
8. Photographs. Whether my image may be used, and where, is set here: photo permission.
By signing I confirm that I have read this, had the chance to ask about it, and meant to sign it.
Other documents of the same kind in the library.
The passenger's release for a day on the water: sea state, a moving deck, tackle, the captain's authority and the distance from shore.
A park's golf cart rental: who may drive, where it may go, what condition it left in and who pays if it comes back different.
A cart released for a round: cart paths, the ninety-degree rule, wet ground, lightning and who is responsible for the course.
The participant waiver for an outing or tournament: struck by a ball, lightning on open ground, and the prize-contest terms.
The member's waiver: the risks of exercise and equipment, their own fitness to take part, and what the gym is and is not responsible for.
The guided hunt waiver, with the firearms handling rules and the elevated-stand harness rule written into what the hunter signs.
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