Not sure if this belongs here as I'm just looking for advice.
I have a job as a warehouseman driving forklift to load/unload trailers. This means that we have drivers come and go pretty much all day. The number varies from day to day, anywhere from 1-7 depending on inbounds. My job, as you'd expect, means I'm inside all day and not a single part of my job requires me to go outside at all. As for employees, there's only me and 1 other employee in the warehouse and one other in design everyday.
As for the size of the company, not everyone will know it, but we deal with big companies. The best thing to put is, we ship out cardboard and make displays that people see in stores.
It was implied that my coworker and I will need to go outside and shovel/salt the walkways to get to the doors. Now I've been a warehouseman my whole career and was never asked before now. My biggest concern is that I do that, get hurt, and the company saying that I shouldn't have been doing that as it wasn't in the handbook or anything.
What would be the best course of action?