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Dissertation

Dissertation

The aim of my MSc Crowd Safety & Risk Analysis dissertation was to understand if the current legislation and approval process is fit for purpose for ensuring crowd safety at outdoor events in the UK. This dissertation has been written into a series of articles to share my academic research with the industry.

#5. Recommendations to Government and Industry to improve Crowd Safety at outdoor events

#5. Recommendations to Government and Industry to improve Crowd Safety at outdoor events

This final chapter revisits each of the research objectives, summarises the findings, critically appraises the research process and concludes with offering three recommendations to government and industry. (Please note this was originally produced in 2019-2020.) Here are the previous chapters for reference: #1 The Root Cause of Crowd Disasters #2

#4. The perceptions of licensing authorities and event safety professionals on crowd safety and legislation at outdoor events.

#4. The perceptions of licensing authorities and event safety professionals on crowd safety and legislation at outdoor events.

This chapter, slightly deviating from the structure of other articles, discusses the analysis of data obtained from the survey, relating to the fourth research objective: "To analyse the perceptions of licensing authorities and event safety professionals in relation to legislation on crowd safety at outdoor events." The data was analysed

#3. The impact of legislation on competency

#3. The impact of legislation on competency

While researching crowd safety and the impact of legislation on crowd safety, one of the key themes that warranted exploring was competency, as legislation and regulation are designed, amended, introduced and managed by human beings. For the purpose of this article, competency is framed as follows: that a person within

#2. Legislation, Regulation and Crowd Safety

#2. Legislation, Regulation and Crowd Safety

Throughout my career I have been fortunate to experience event planning and approval on both sides of the Safety Advisory Group (SAG): presenting event plans and assessing event plans - in sports grounds and outdoor events. Legislation differs greatly whether or not an event is inside a venue or out

#1. The Root Cause of Crowd Disasters

#1. The Root Cause of Crowd Disasters

Crowd disasters occur when people are given insufficient information and space (Sime, 1999). It is rarely the case that only one factor causes a disaster (Helbing and Mukerji, 2012). In particular, increase or decrease in density is the difference between crowds moving from a ‘jamming’ to a ‘non-jamming’ state, accumulating

So, what is Crowd Safety?

So, what is Crowd Safety?

I get a blank look when I tell people I work in "crowd safety". I ask if they ever attended an event; arrived safely, guided into the venue, found their seat, watched the show and then guided back to their transport, barely noticing the journey? That's crowd safety.