How to Maintain Surfaces for Safety and Legal Protection

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Facility managers must remain grounded when keeping their sports surfaces safe, or else they may find themselves in a legal quagmire.

Cherlynn Tang and her teenage children spent much of their Valentine's Day noon hour skating on a temporary ice rink in Irvine, Calif. As skaters were instructed to vacate the ice, which after 45 minutes was due for a resurfacing, Tang allegedly glided over a puddle of melt water, lost her footing and fell backwards. Her resulting head injury proved fatal just days later.

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