Thursday, July 07, 2016
Promote Safety at Entertainment Venues with Signaling
entertainmentdesigner.com: A man leaves the boardwalk at Yellowstone National Park and is boiled to death in an acid spring. A child climbs over, under, and through barriers at the Cincinnati Zoo and ends up in the Gorilla cage. A family confronts a surprise alligator attack and loses their son after he wades in the water at the Grand Floridian Resort at Walt Disney World in Florida. All in all, it’s been a pretty terrible spring for the PR of leisure venue safety in the United States.
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This is a very touchy subject people are on both sides of the argument. Here is were i sit i don't blame disney or the Cincinnati zoo. They did what they could in the case of the boy in disney, its more the family fault. In Florida there are wild animals your in a swampy area. There are signs that say no swimming some may say they weren't big enough but its the responsibility of the patrons to be aware of signs. Also the parents need to be more careful about letting there kids be in areas like that. Animals were here before us they need to be respected and some times its unfortunate. But its also no disney fault they do so much for safety but they can't do anything its the patrons duty to make decisions and unfortunately it wasn't the best one. In the case of Cincinnati the event is all unfortunate, blaming doesn't help anything. The zoo did the best, the situation would be so different if the gorilla lives and boy died. Its hard to say wether its the parents fault and i don't blame them parents make mistakes but at a zoo you have to be a lot more careful as kids are small and fast. But all in all things happen and i don't think blaming anyone will change the situation i only makes it more tense and less productive.
I always think that discussions about safety are the most interesting discussions. It is difficult to provide both a safe and full experience, not matter how hard you try. A safe design for the entertainment venue can only go so far. While making the venue safe is important, not all the blame when problems occur can be put on the venue. A level of common sense is needed to protect everyone as well. I agree with the statement that is in the article about how putting up signs can often prove unhelpful, as many people either ignore them or try and play with fate because of them. If people get hurt doing things that they had no business doing to begin with, they can’t blame anyone but themselves. However on that same idea, entertainment venues also have to realize that there are people out there who don’t want to look at safety measures as being for their own good. I am not sure if there is a good way to solve this problem, but I know that whatever happens it will make going to these places a lot less fun.
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