“Crowd safety and health and safety roles complement each other, but are not interchangeable”
In order to successfully complete a risk assessment for safety management at temporary event sites – and, it could be argued, on every site where entertainment is performed – “two entirely separate, but equally important roles” were vital, argued the late Mick Upton: 1.
Crowd safety manager (CSM) 2. Health and safety consultant (HSC)
Upton clearly advises in one of his papers that the “crowd manager should be responsible for designing a crowd management plan and then focus on command and control of the…
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Chris Hannam of Stagesafe highlights the essential cooperation of vital roles in event and crowd safety management, and the correct use of relevant terminology
Comment 1 February 2019