9th July 2013, 05:22 PM
Wax Wrote:"The project and its host Institutions bear no responsibility for any access or health and safety issues that may arise during your participation in this project."Health & saftey-wise, they're not talking about digging-type field work though. If you look at the form, it's just observation-based. TBH it's the type of info you could gather whilst walking the dog (albeit a rather fit and patient one). If there were serious health & safety risks to the requested work, then we'd have to ban the public from hillforts altogether.
I do think that potential access issues ought to be more explicit i.e. "Not all hillforts will be available for this type of direct observation, and we bear no responsibility for the emotional distress caused by you being escorted off private property at the wrong end of a shotgun with someone yelling 'Gerroff moi laaaand' after you."