If you want to be upset with someone, be upset with Richard Reid.
Actually its the TSA that is to blame. Tell me Ron what other countries require airline passengers to remove their shoes unless they are flying to the United States. How many shoe bombs outside of the United States have occurred since Richard Reid?
Name me a big company that wouldn’t? It’s a fact in our world now days, and a part of the whole employment experience sad though it may be. The thing is to not vary from the written, and if you have no choice then you get the OK from your supervisor to do it. That puts the monkey on their back.
Having spent twenty years in an industry that has a high level of risk management I can tell you are mistaken. If you do something that you know is wrong and your supervisor tells you to do it you are just as liable. The Nazi's at the war crimes trials claimed that they were just following orders. The Nuremberg defense didn't work for them it won't work for you.