Having spent more than three decades as a lawyer for a number of companies in the industrial gas business, both global and local, when it comes to risk allocation my advice has always been the same — avoid expensive legal problems.
To minimize problems, I suggest following these three principles: be safe in what you do; do it with adequate insurance to the extent possible; and have lawyers draft appropriate contract language where it can be done.
In this article, Marc Blubaugh and I discuss the overall importance of the first principle, which can trump the need for the other two if you do it well — handle your products safely at all times! Here, we examine safety as it pertains to the shipping and loading of the industrial gas industry’s main products on trucks for transport and delivery.
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