Quote Originally Posted by psychostorm View Post
Completely missed the point of my post. Thanks. Yes, every person has a responsibility to Health & Safety. I'm not for anybody waiving responsibilities.

The arena rules on this site aren't legally binding though.
Legally, they are recommendations of safety under threat of the volunteers not turning up. Doesn't mean anyone has to obey them.

Legally, there is nothing the FRA can do to stop this happening anywhere. The ball is entirely in Jonno's court.

Unless Robot Combat was listed as a sport by Sport England with the FRA listed as an official national body.
The thing is that the FRA rules are insured, and all of is EO's state to our insurance con pairs that we follow the GRa rules and arena safety guildlines to be able to get insurance. So it is legally binding in that respect.

With regards to going to Australia multiple times, we had to go to Abu Dhabi 3 times before hand, and they came to us twice to inspect the arena and see how it all works and gets setup. Alan has also been to Singapore to check the arena being built for his event later in the month. It's all well and good to accept a job because they offer you a decent amount of money, but if they don't have the extra money to pay for making sure the event is safe then we always have to turn it down.

Also, whoever's insurance is being used at that event, the insurance company will always look for who's responsible. That will always track back to the "experts" on that field which regardless of what anyone says will be Jonno. I'm really not trying to jump on the situation or make things worse, but these are the things we need to consider every week at Robo Challenge now and it only takes one case of negligence to destroy our business and years of hard work, aswel as someone else's life.