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Health and Safety Legislation and its importants to sport.
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Claire Watts. Health and Safety Legislation and its important on sport. HSWA is an enabling act. HSWA stands for Health and Safety at Work Act. It allows more regulations to be brought into practice when they become necessary. The need to bring more regulations into action is due to major incidents occurring. A good example is The Hillsborough Disaster. * Liverpool VS Nottingham * 10,000 fans * More tickets sold to Liverpool * Liverpool fans put in smaller section * 3 gates and 7 turn styles in use for all 10,000 fans * Metal fence * Fans inside the grounds were struggling to breathe as the numbers swelled To make matters worse there was already a previous incident in 1981 which should have acted as a warning sign of the tragedy. They should have learnt there lessons from that incident by taking the fences down and having ticket allocations. The reasons for Legislations being introduced are to help investigate...
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