diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fbcb33e4..361b64aa 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ Then add **hubot-pager-me** to your `external-scripts.json`:
 * HUBOT_PAGERDUTY_API_KEY - Get one from https://<your subdomain>.pagerduty.com/api_keys
 * HUBOT_PAGERDUTY_SERVICE_API_KEY - Service API Key from a 'General API Service'. This should be assigned to a dummy escalation policy that doesn't actually notify, as hubot will trigger on this before reassigning it
 * HUBOT_PAGERDUTY_SERVICES - (optional) Provide a comma separated list of service identifiers (e.g. `PFGPBFY`) to restrict queries to only those services.
+* HUBOT_PAGERDUTY_SCHEDULES_BLACKLIST - (optional) Provide a comman seperated blacklist of schedule names to filter out when querying for 'whos on call'
+      (e.g. `Backup,Secondary` will remove all schedules with either the words 'Backup' or 'Secondary' in the schedule name)
 
 ### Webhook
 
diff --git a/src/scripts/pagerduty.coffee b/src/scripts/pagerduty.coffee
index 9065a3ff..30eb673a 100644
--- a/src/scripts/pagerduty.coffee
+++ b/src/scripts/pagerduty.coffee
@@ -602,6 +602,10 @@ module.exports = (robot) ->
           robot.emit 'error', err, msg
           return
         if schedules.length > 0
+          if process.env.HUBOT_PAGERDUTY_SCHEDULES_BLACKLIST
+            schedules_blacklist_regex = new RegExp("(" + process.env.HUBOT_PAGERDUTY_SCHEDULES_BLACKLIST.replace(/,/g, '|') + ")")
+            schedules = schedules.filter (schedule) -> !schedule.name.match(schedules_blacklist_regex)
+
           async.map schedules, renderSchedule, (err) ->
             if err?
               robot.emit 'error', err, msg