My business is an Animation Company that performs some outdoor
shooting activities. In this post, I list three examples of legal liabilities,
which are related to my business.
On April 15
Th,
2013, two bomb blasts turned the 117
th Boston marathon into a tragic
event. From the first moment, officials said that the attack was a terrorist
act, but they continued investigating. Later in that day, authorities confirmed
that the death toll was three, one of them being an 8-year-old boy. During the
dramatic even, local hospitals reported that at least 144 people were being
treated. As for these injured people, more than
seventeen were in dangerous conditions and twenty-five in serious condition.
What began as a simple form of entertainment where crowd and participants
gathered for the annual marathon race, turned into this horrific nightmare
In
my opinion, the security team needed a complete risks plan before the beginning
of the event. Public safety could be maintained by making a plan to reduce the
risk of an attack. A possible plan could have been to changing the location of
the event to the suburb area because it is easy to manage people in a suburb
rather than in downtown Boston. In
addition, everyone getting into the finish line area should have passed the
security check. That could have filtered anyone carrying weapons.
On March 14th,
2011, an employee got injured while repairing a roller coaster at one of the
Disney’s parks. After a few days, the employee died at the hospital. Russell
Sherry Roscoe, 52 year-old, was air lifted to
the Orlando Regional Medical Center. Few days after the incident, he died due
to severe head injuries.
Safety
is a big issue when it comes to handling tech equipment. Even if the reputation
of the Mickey Mouse Company is in high standing, this tragic incident adds up
to the negative light instead of the magical experience. So, the mechanic
should evaluate and analyze the potential risks, which could be threat for the
assets and their safety.
In November 2011, a
crewmember died during the shooting of the movie
Dark Knight Rises in New York.
Officials could not identify the unknown man, who suffered a heart attack
during the rehearsal of the epic finale battle shoot between the cape crusader
and his nemesis. “The studio can confirm that a male extra
passed away while on a break during an off-set crowd rehearsal for a sequence
with several hundred extras... in early November" (Michael, 2011). A Warner
Bros. representative told The Post. It was reported that the production team
fully co-operated with official investigations that took place in order to find
out the cause of death. One can simply question how does this act of god play
out for the studio when the man’s family comes knocking at their office door
for explanation.
I
did some research about their safety preparations, and I found that they didn’t
have medical team present at the backstage during that time. In order to reduce
the legal liability, we should identify the risks of the security and
understand it to reduce the risk, and provide details of potential healthy
risks that must be covered to shoot safely. Meanwhile, prepare the first-aid
kit and medical support team to ensure employee safety, health, and welfare.
Liabilities
in the entertainment industry may exist in all forms. Whether it comes in the
form of a terrorist act, or a simple malfunction of technology or purely an act
of god, somebody is always responsible. Legal battles, safekeeping and legacy
cost follows after these kinds of horrific incidents. Due to these reasons,
entertainment companies or organizations have implemented insurance policy,
emergency risk management plans, and limited liability contracts to push
liabilities away from themselves.
