期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2019
卷号：9
期号：3
页码：499-511
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v9-i3/5709
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：Event planners and venue managers were ultimately held responsible for improper standards of control in any events that they are responsible with. The implementation of risk and safety procedures within the event site will not always preclude the defendant from legal liability. This paper explored the significance of legal and safety issues among event planners and venue managers in Malaysian event management industry. Despite a plethora of literature confirming that legal and safety issues are fundamental in event risk management, a thorough literature review has exposed the insufficiency of research of these intertwine areas. This empirical investigation has been taken in order to investigate the perceptions of event planners and venue managers in Malaysia towards legal and safety issues in planning and managing events. Due to the lack of empirical studies in this area, a qualitative exploratory case study approach using semi-structured interviews has been conducted aiming at exploring the importance of this topic, and to identify (and justify) several important legal acts (Law of Malaysia) within the event management context. The sample participants were recruited based on purposive sampling technique comprising of six event planners and three venue managers from various event related organisations in Malaysia. The data were analysed inductively using constant comparison method. The findings identify three major organisations responsible for the implementation and enforcement of legal and safety issues as well as eight Malaysian legal acts which regulates the event management industry namely the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 (Act 514), Factories and Machinery Act 1967 (Act 139), Environmental Quality Act 1974 (Act 127), Explosives Act 1957 (Act 207), Peaceful Assembly Act 2012 (Act 736), Fire Services Act 1988 (Act 341), Employees’ Social Security Act 1969 (Act 4) and Civil Aviation Act 1969 (Act 3).
