My Niche Involves the Use of Dangerous Equipment. How Do I Protect My Business Legally?

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Pat Flynn

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Today's question comes from Serena, who has a blog that offers advice that involves the use of potentially dangerous tools and chemicals. How does she protect herself legally? Serena's site is http://thriftdiving.com/. Do you have a question about the legal side of your business? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Thanks to our sponsor, Design Crowd. To learn more about working with their designers, go to http://designcrowd.com/askpat. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	What up, AskPath.
0:05.1	AskPath.com.
0:11.0	What up, everybody, Patlin here, and welcome to episode 656 of AskPath. Thank you so much for joining
0:16.6	me today. As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five
0:20.2	days a week. We have a great question today from Serena. But before we get to Serena's question, I do here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:22.7	We have a great question today from Serena.
0:27.9	But before we get to Serena's question, I do want to thank today's sponsor, which is designcrowd.com.
0:36.3	So designcrowd.com helps entrepreneurs and small businesses outsource or crowdsource custom graphics, logos, and web design from designers all around the world.
0:40.7	So design crowd has more than a half million designers from over 100 different countries,
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0:49.0	So if you want to check them out and actually get a VIP offer just for the listeners of this show,
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0:59.0	Again, that's D-E-S-I-G-N-r-o-d-com forward slash ask pat and get your VIP offer there thanks so much and here's today's question from serena hey pat serena here from
1:05.5	thriftiving dot com which is a do-it-yourself blog that inspires readers to decorate, improve, and maintain their home on a budget.
1:14.5	So here's the question that I have for you today.
1:16.9	What do we do as do-it-yourself, crafty bloggers who put, we put out a lot of tutorials, a lot of instructions using power tools, using other kind of chemicals.
1:30.0	What do we do if one of our readers injures themselves? So they've tried a project, they've
1:36.3	used a power tool, they hurt themselves, maybe they tried to, you know, paint a piece of
1:42.5	furniture that was an antique and they ruined it because
1:45.4	of something that we said or something they saw on our site. How do we protect ourselves from
1:50.2	that? Is it that we put a disclaimer on every post? Do we put a disclaimer, you know, in a menu tab?
1:58.4	What do we do to protect ourselves? Or do we get insurance? I would love to hear
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