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A Muddied Industry Essential Risk Management Strategies for Mud Run Participants, Race Organizers, and Sponsors - Part II
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A Muddied Industry Essential Risk Management Strategies for Mud Run Participants, Race Organizers, and Sponsors - Part II

Todd Seidler, Gil Fried, Sarah J. Young, Margaret C. Keiper and JoAnn M. Eickhoff-Shemek
ACSM's health & fitness journal, Vol.18(5), pp.42-45
09/2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1249/FIT.0000000000000058
Web of Science ID: WOS:000341504000010

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Abstract

In Part I of this series on obstacle course mud runs (OCMR), we discussed the rapid growth of these events and the types of health-related and obstacle-related injuries and deaths that have occurred. Some of these injuries and deaths have resulted in negligence lawsuits against the race organizers and sponsors. We also indicated that, until there is an industry-wide management system in place, participants, race organizers, and sponsors need to manage these risks, that is, develop and implement risk management strategies to help minimize the number and severity of injuries as well as subsequent litigation. Part II of this article will focus on risk management strategies that all three parties V participants, race organizers, and sponsorsV should consider before becoming involved in OCMR.

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