MANAGEMENT
Today, the world of sports has an immense number of fans following with subsequent industrial growth. According to Schlesinger (2016), the American population was recorded more than 320 million and Jones (2015) claimed that more than 60% of American population is a diehard fan of sports. Among innumerable sports, the National Basketball Association (NBA) has 17.7 million viewers; the Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series has 14.9 million viewers, and the National Football League (NFL) Super Bowl had record-breaking 108.7 million viewers throughout United States of America (USA; Thompson, 2014).
Surprisingly, more than half a million viewers of each game prefer visiting sports facilities in order to watch live competition. Sports facilities such as Yankee Stadium New York (YSNY) need to equip with defined plan, measures for health and safety, and various components in order to conduct a successful and sound sports event. Considering the YSNY as the case sports facility, there are four significant components that play a pivotal role in operations management of the facility (Schwarz, Hall and Shilbi, 2016).
The first component of operations management is pre-management and pre-operations concerns such as the creation of organogram, arranging sources of finance, and construction of venue. In context to organogram, YSNY must create organizational roles and acquire appropriate talents from the labor market. The roles should define specific duties and working hours, which will decide the justified scale of remuneration for each employee (Bianca, 2012). The considered sources of finance could be crowd funding, bank loans, sponsorships, etc (Platt, 2016). Further, the talent and acquired financial resources would decide the final subcomponent, which is the infrastructure of the facility. Regarding the infrastructure, YNSY needs to study the fan-oriented statistics of arranged games and define precise spacious specifications. Moreover, the facility should provide other essentials to visitors such as parking spaces and restrooms (Meszaros, 2013).
The second component is an implication of the develop strategy and allocation of gathered resources. Precisely, this component actually initiates the discipline of operations management and integrated functions. The integrated functions are segmented into four categories namely planning, which are done during the previous stage, organizing, leading, and controlling. The organization would allocate human resources in relevance to their skills and defined roles (Lawler III, 2014), which would subsequently mold the behavior individually through suitable leadership skills at the leading stage (Brown, 2014). Lastly, the controlling stage would be responsible for keeping each resource on a mutual platform through a well-aligned span of control in order to attain organizational objectives (Myatt, 2012).
The third essential component of sports facility operations management is auxiliary activities, which refers to marketing management, event management, and risk management. These disciplines would appeal the desired target audience globally and conduct a successful and particular sports event in a specific period. The marketing management would be responsible for promoting an event through various mediums in order to inform and attract target audience towards YSNY (Morello, 2016). The promotion would be done simultaneously with event management activities and/or vice versa, which will be responsible for conducting the sports event presently (Steimle, 2014). Lastly, the risk would be assessed by the human resource prior to the execution of an event. The risk management team would identify each peril integrated within the conduct and arrange means to mitigate for continuity (Patton, 2014).
The final component is the measurement of operational effectiveness through expected benchmarks and actual accomplishments of objectives. The monitoring and measurement stage is essential to identify integrated strengths and weaknesses in resource acquisition, resource allocation, and productivity (Otieno, 2014). Without contrasting the tendency of achievements and result deviations, sports facilities such as YSNY cannot state the efficiency of the complete and systematic process of operations management.
Health and Safety Procedures – A Significance Insight
Health and safety frameworks at work facilities, particularly at sports facilities, are purposed to minimize unusual risks that exist within the environment. These frameworks and regulations are developed to protect both staff and visitors that are present at the venue during an event. Providing an adequate space of fire exit, availability of first aid kits, trained staff members that have the capability to resolve disputes among visitors, and a constant presence of specialized medical staff are among few considerations. Besides these considerations, sports facilities should have access to accident and/or national civil defense in order to deal with unprecedented occurring during a sports event. In context to the YSNY, health and safety measures should be detailed and aligned based on a number of visitors, which are half a million approximately. The sports facility needs a proper and defined training programs, hazard management teams and emergency procedures in order to deal with contingencies (Sports NZ, 2014).
Discussing the legislations, they are subject to change as per the size of a facility and number of employees. As evidence, YSNY provides in-house Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), constant maintenance of facility electrical points, elevator checks, emergency exits and evacuations, portable and wall-fitted radios, wheelchair storeroom and wheelchair transfers, and systematic access to a bus point for visitors with disabilities. An essential piece of health and safety procedures at YSNY is spreading a word. This refers to mediums that can potentially aware visitors and human resources regarding safety proceedings and risk mitigations. The facility has significant arrangements in order to minimize and/or prevent potential environmental damages that could occur during a sports event, which signifies the sense of management responsibility (YSNY, 2016).
Legal Practice Procedures Influencing Health and Safety Conducts in Sports Facilities
Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA) 1974
The HSWA 1974 is a primary influence throughout the global sports industry, which includes YSNY. The Act was established to protect and prevent occupational hazards at a workplace and minimize safety ignorance. The employers are directed to maintain and establish frameworks that are risk-free for health and lives of employees during job hours. Further, the employers such as YSNY should provide detailed guidelines, information, training, and supervisory assistance to staff in order to avoid potential workplace harms (HSE, 2016).
In context to the visitors, the Act specifies the roles towards people that do not belong to facility staffing. Considering YSNY, the sports facility should be maintained and renovated at specific intervals in order to avoid safe access to the visitors. Moreover, the facility is directed to eliminate substances that could harm or possess harm towards health and safety of visitors. Lastly, the YSNY should select a non-domestic and/or commercialize area to set up sports premises. The purpose of this clause is to minimize traffic and sound pollution within the radius of national residential areas. Any non-compliance would result in cancellation of facility licensing and event management activities on the premises (HSE, 2016).
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) 2002
PPE 2002 is a legislative proceeding that compels work and sports facilities to provide protective gears in order to prevent employees from physical injuries. These gears comprise with equipment such as helmets to prevent head injuries, eyewear to prevent penetration of liquid splashes and flying particles, gloves to protect hand burns and injuries from chemicals and machinery, anti-flammable clothing to avoid contact with fire, protective footwear, and respiratory gears to minimize lung damages from onsite smokes (HSE, 2016).
Similar to the HSWA 1974, the PPE 2002 obligates sports facilities such as YSNY to provide adequate training, instructions, and supervisions in order to attain health and safety at a workplace. However, the legislation states that work facilities should provide these gears to employees without any charges and control the adverse circumstances. Charging employees with specified equipment is another mean of exploitation and facility would face regulatory proceedings. The gear should have the ability to sustain work hours of each employee and must change at regular intervals. The facility should take care of hygienic factors related to specified equipment, while the ignorance would have legal consequences (HSE, 2016).
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) 2002
COSHH 2002 is legislation that focuses on preventing damages from nano-particles on-facility. This legislation enforces sports facilities such as YSNY to control substances that are present within the facility environment and have the potential to cause damages to employees and visitors pre, during, and post events. The purpose of this act is to prevent encounter of stakeholders with hazardous substances that are present within the environment during work and event conduct (HSE, 2016).
According to the legislative proceedings, the sports facility should identify mediums that spread hazardous substances and nano-particles within the environment. Subsequently, the facility management should prepare measures and systematic frameworks in order to minimize exposure to these particles and conduct an adequate level of risk evaluation. Further, the regulatory of sports facility such as YSNY should align this legislation with the PPE 2002 and provide suitable equipment to employees and visitors that can mitigate encounter with hazardous particles. Moreover, the assurance of equipment utilization should be done through proper monitoring procedures. As a contingency measure, the facility should have collaboration with national medical facilities in order to respond towards emergencies promptly (HSE, 2016).
Health and Safety First Aid 1981
According to this legislation, YSNY should have adequate safety equipment and specialized personnel in order to provide injury prevention services to employees, athletes, and visitors. Besides game injuries, the specified stakeholders should have arrangements for illness treatments that occur during the facility presence. The primary objective of this legislation is to prevent fatalities or chronic injuries that have the potential to disturb an entire family system and quality life. It must be notified that first aid equipment varies with the scale of the facility and an ongoing event. In case of YSNY, the facility should have proper arrangements to provide first aid needs along with trained medical personnel (HSE, 2016).
In order to make defined and quality first aid arrangements, YSNY needs to conduct a research that will identify types and tendency of injuries along with probability of occurring. Based on the results, the facility should make adequate arrangements and minimize chances of extreme circumstances. The national regulatory has the complete authority to prosecute the facility and concerned management in case of non-compliance with the guidelines (HSE, 2016).
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