Risk Management and Negligence

In the Steinbach article, I feel it is the entity that is the driving force of such negligence. A governing body in the track and field world needs to reevaluate the regulations of equipment and overall level of danger of each of the events. Distance from one event to the next also needs to be examined. While reading the article, I thought about all of the other competitive sports that exist in the world and how relatively new they are compared to some of the events in track and field, which have been around since the roman empire days. Is it possible that a sport or competitive event could be considered outdated all together? It might be considered too ancient of a past-time that contains a danger level that some could consider to be barbaric in nature. The duty of these schools are to protect their students. The act of reasonable care is provided by the school but it has limitations. Students are usually under the age of 18 and are allowed to compete using a waiver from their parents. This decision to let their son or daughter compete could be a question of ethics on the part of all three parties involved, the school, parents, and student minor athlete.

As mentioned in chapter 2 of the text and in this article, many of the accidents occurred due to lack of improper supervision. Clear and open fields of play need to be required so that judges, parents, and officials can easily keep spectators and themselves out of harms way during events. You want to use the minimum amount of employees as possible for supervision while maximizing the amount of safety for the athletes themselves. Also proper signage as mentioned in chapter 7 are important for informing spectators and other athletes in the area of regions of the facility they cannot go, whether these regions of increased danger may be temporary or more permanent.