Title: Discussion Board
Course: SLF 129 Legal Risk Management for The Small Business - Updated Sept 28 > Section: SLF 129 Legal Risk Management for The Small Business - Updated Sept 28

Unit 7 Discussion

20 pts.

“Risk Management”

Please post your response to the following scenario:

You own a small equipment rental business.  A customer rented a gas engine concrete saw from you and proceeded to use it with a partner, indoors in a non-ventilated basement.  The customer died from carbon monoxide poisoning while his partner survived by crawling out of a basement window.  It’s a well-known fact that any internal combustion equipment must be operated outdoors or in a highly ventilated space indoors.  Your rental contract states this fact in small print which your customer initialed without reading.  Because carbon monoxide poising is considered common knowledge, your employees did not explicitly state that the saw should not be operated indoors.

Q: Who do think would be at fault, you or the customer?

Q: Knowing the hazards inherent in this type of business, from a risk management position what policies might you implement in regards to this situation?

Q: Do you think you could ever fully safeguard your business through a risk management plan?