{"id":13499,"date":"2010-01-26T13:01:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13499"},"modified":"2010-01-26T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:02:00","slug":"helmet-laws-coming-to-california-resorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13499","title":{"rendered":"Helmet Laws Coming To California Resorts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And new bill before the California State Assembly could force California resorts to nut up regarding safety. The bill, <strong>AB 1652<\/strong> was created by <strong>Dr. Dan Gregorie<\/strong> after the snowboarding death of his 24-year-old daughter. If passed it would require California ski resorts to do the following according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumeraffairs.com\/news04\/2010\/01\/ca_ski_safety.html\" target=\"_blank\">ConsumerAffairs.com<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2022 Require each employee to wear a ski helmet.<br \/>\n\u2022 Adopt and enforce mandatory helmet use for all patrons age 18 years and younger.<br \/>\n\u2022 Prepare and post annual safety plans for public access.<br \/>\n\u2022 Provide accessible information regarding deaths and injuries, including the what, where, when, why and how of each incident.<br \/>\n\u2022 Establish standardized signage for ski-area boundaries and hazard warnings.<br \/>\n\u2022 Provide standardized safety padding for use at lift towers and other fixed obstacles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>None of it seems all that unreasonable especially when you see how many people <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calskisafety.org\/documents\/Deaths-On-the-Slopes-2008-2009.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">died last season while riding resorts<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumeraffairs.com\/news04\/2010\/01\/ca_ski_safety.html\" target=\"_blank\">ConsumerAffairs.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And new bill before the California State Assembly could force California resorts to nut up regarding safety. The bill, AB 1652 was created by Dr. Dan Gregorie after the snowboarding death of his 24-year-old daughter. If passed it would require California ski resorts to do the following according to a story on ConsumerAffairs.com: \u2022 Require [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13499"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13500,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13499\/revisions\/13500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}