CONV 105 Event Law and Risk Management

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Event Law and Risk Management
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Part 1: Risk Assessment Report
Executive Summary
This paper discusses about Queen’s hotel. The Queens has become famous as a landmark for
not only local and national quality acts but also for international high quality acts of different
genres of music as well as entertainment. Accordingly, The Queen’s Hotel is positioned in a
strategically positioned location within the city centre of Nanaimo BC. Therefore, this paper
provide a risk assessment plan for the hotel, its legal operation context that the legal
operations under which the premise run and the risk assessment matrix.
Organization Context
Introduction
The Queens Hotel was established in 1892. For more than one hundred years that the
Queens Hotel has been in existence it has been able to see many face lifts as well as many
characters ("About Us", 2018). Furthermore, over the last two decades The Queens has
become famous as a landmark for not only local and national quality acts but also for
international high quality acts of different genres of music as well as entertainment.
Accordingly, The Queen’s Hotel is positioned in a strategically positioned location within the
city centre of Nanaimo BC. Certainly the local Nanaimo scene has played a significant role
towards the development of the hotel with entertainers such as Wunderbread, David Gogo,
and Michael Patrick among others. As a result, these local acts have provided a base which
has involved the local audience of Nanaimo which has paved way for touring acts from
across the globe. Since the launch period of The Queen’s Hotel it has been able to host a
mass of luminaries with an endless list. Currently, the hotel has a total of thirty employees
which is run from 8.00 PM to 3.00 AM every day. Out of the thirty employees five do not
speak English as their first language. Nonetheless, these employees are sufficiently fluent and

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are therefore capable of doing their job since they are conversant with the safety instructions
and also in a position to deal with difficult situations.
Certainly, the Queen’s hotel belief is to ensuring that it provide its clients with
services and products of the highest quality ever. As a result, the Queen’s hotel has a
constructed a building that is solid and provides a world class entertainment. Therefore, the
hotel offers its clients with the best services as an acknowledgement that its audience are the
reason for its survival and existence. Therefore, the Queen’s hotel offers a range of meals and
beverages and spirits. For instance, Queens’s hotel menu comprises appies such as deep-fried
wontons, tower of onion rings, dry ribs, zucchini sticks, and chicken wings as well as club
classics. Accordingly, most of the customers for Queen’s hotel are tourists from across the
world.
Mission Statement
The mission of The Queen’s Hotel is committed to bringing its customers the highest quality
acts and services and thanking its clients for clients for the past and continued patronage.
Queen’s Risk Management plan
In the modern world it is difficult to operate successfully without facing
complications such as accidents in eatery business. Even though, there are dissimilarities
social clubs, restaurants, and public houses share many common risks. Therefore, risk
management include identifying, and evaluation which is followed by the introduction of
extermination or control measures. Certainly this comes with a subsequent review and audit
of these measures. In the case of the Queen’s hotel the risk management plan will involve the
risk controls:
Fire and explosion

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Fire can not only put individuals’ lives at risk but it also has a devastating impact
towards the business. Since cooking is a common feature at Queen’s hotel it is important to
ensure that there is a fire risks assessment in place. Thus, there are various aspects which can
result in a greater risk. Consequently, this parts provide guidelines on the following:
Fire risk assessment: The law demands that as a hotel the business ought to have had a
fire risk assessment of the premises to have been accomplished by the aid of a competent
personnel (Yilmaz, Steffensen, Jomaas, and Valkvist, 2014). Basically, this assessment has to
be recorded and through this assessment it allow the business to identify the necessary
measures to lower the risk of injury and death to any of its employees, customers and other
persons on the premise, especially persons with disability, elderly, young and other
susceptible groups. It is important to note that the reduction of this risk of fire for purposes of
life safety will also be of great benefit to the business. As a result, it is essential for Queen’s
hotel to be conversant with, comply with where applicable all the fire safety regulations.
Electrical hazards: Indeed, electrical faults, poorly maintained appliances and
incorrectly installed electrical installations are a major cause of fire in restaurants and hotels.
Certainly, it is important to make sure that electrical installations are appropriately installed
by certified persons and periodically maintained with portable electrical appliances to
minimise the business risk of suffering a fire (Duo, Shen, Zhao, & Gong, 2016).
Smoking: While smoking is currently unlawfully in many building which are in
places of work or those which have public access, the legalisation of marijuana by the
Canadian government places a risk most premises. As a result, the Queen’s management has
the responsibility under this legislation to ensure that its clients smoke from a specific zones
within the hotel (Madaio et al., 2016). Indeed, this will help to avoid cases of fire break out.
In order to ensure that smoking is controlled, Queen’s hotel need to train its employees on