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PRT 3520
Final Project
As a parks employee, the number one job, above all else, is safety.
Making sure everyone in the parks is safe while making sure that the city
itself is protected against liability is priority. I am currently an employee of
the Bountiful City Parks Department, have been for many years, and plan on
being there for many years more. This course in liability and risk
management will be very crucial throughout my career.
There are many ways that people may become injured in a park or in
the parks department, whether it be psychological, financial, physical, or
political. The most common types of litigation I will have to encounter will
likely be cases of negligence. These may include basically three causes of
negligence; a person participating in park activities becoming injured, an
injury is caused by an employee on another person, or a person injuring
themselves while on the job. Knowing how to protect myself as well as the
city is essential.
Presently I am a parks maintenance supervisor for the Bountiful City
Parks Department. I deal with the daily maintenance of various parks and
other city owned properties. I manage four employees, and together using
many types of power tools, trucks, different vehicles, and other various
equipment we keep the facilities clean, maintained, and safe. I keep strict
records when possible liabilities and risks are found, and record when and
how they are fixed.
Even with proper training employees may sometimes become injured
on the job. Someone could fall off a ladder, slip and fall, get crushed under
preexisting. Along with the Drs. exams, Mr. Ullmans testimony was very
inconsistent and the court ruled in favor of the city of Tampa.
Another way a person may become injured is when a duty to protect a
park attendee from injury is breached and harm befalls that person. This may
be fairly frequent, with most injuries being less severe, going unknown not
calling for litigation, except for the larger more severe occurrences. There is
an example of such negligence cases in the trial court case of Titus Preston
versus Pierce County. On this occasion Titus became injured when his foot
slipped into some uncovered, exposed, moving parts at the center of a parks
manual merry-go-round. He was appealing the courts initial ruling granting
immunity in the Washington recreation land use immunity act which protects
landowners as long as the injury was not intentional, there was no fee, and
there were no dangers that did not have signs warning of the conditions. The
plaintiff argued that it was an attractive nuisance; however, the boys mother
testified that she allowed her boy to play on the toy knowing that the cover
to the moving parts was missing and that the parts were clearly visible. The
boy also testified as to playing on the toy several times previously and could
not recall whether there was any signs stating to keep off, however, both
maintenance workers testified as to the words keep off being labeled on the
toy. This helped prove that although there were known dangerous artificial
latent conditions, there were warning signs that had been conspicuously
posted.
toys from their playgrounds. In the last case with the employment of the violent
criminal you may try to reduce by have the person always be supervised or try to
transfer the risk, but the safest bet would just be to avoid or close the risk, by either
not hiring former inmates all together or not placing ones with certain criminal pasts
in certain work positions that might prove to be dangerous.