Liability

Though you have insured your show, members of staff and the public, you should consider your liabilities in relation to attractions. I strongly suggest that you take advice from your insurers and insist that all exhibitors, displays, bands and any other attractions should have their own insurance. This insurance should cover them for the activities they perform while on your site and cover them and any damage or injury they may cause.

Ensure that you and the managers of each specific attraction or exhibit know what is required and expected. Review their act and or exhibits and agree and write down what they are expected to do. If during the review you consider their sword-swallowing trick to be inappropriate or unnecessarily dangerous, tell the performer and get them to sign to acknowledge the fact that they have been told and will remove any identified dangers and risks.

To make your safety ethos clear to them, I also suggest that you make it a clause in your agreement with them that they will abide by your health and safety rules, and that any breach may result in fees being withheld and them being asked to leave the site. You will have to supply them with a copy of your rules and procedures and also monitor them while on site.