Event Management: Planning a Safe Event

Course details

Understand core event health and safety processes

• Create a risk assessment for an event or festival
• Gain a better understanding of audience welfare …  Who is this course for?
• Event and festival assistants
• Aspiring event organizers … 

Do you aspire to a career in events? Perhaps you’re on a new career path as an event planner, event manager or organizer. If so, this course will give you core information you need to understand event management safety for all sorts of events and festivals.
By the end of the course, you will be able to create a risk assessment, conduct a site survey and increase your awareness of the audience well being.
Former Events manager Jarno Stegemen brings his years of experience in music festivals to help you grasp a fundamental part of events management.
The course lectures and exercises include an interview with Joesph Pred, an expert in risk and safety for festivals including Burning Man and Glastonbury.
Learn to recognise risk, and safely take your events career to bigger crowds.
Introduction To Event Safety

• Say hi to your fellow students!
• Share your new course with your friends!
• Introduction
• What is health & safety at events?
• The importance of health & safety at events

Planning Your Event

• The importance of an event plan
• Knowing your audience
• Understanding your event site

Site Survey and Site Design

• What is a site survey?
• What to look for when conducting a site survey
• Site Survey and Site Design
• Interview: Introduction of Joseph Pred
• What is site design?

Risk Assessment For Your Event

• What is a risk assessment?
• The 5 steps to create a risk assessment
• Risk assessment example
• Interview Joseph Pred
• Exercise: Create your own risk assessment
• Interview: What to think of when you create a risk assessment

Medical Support and First Aid At Your Event

• Plan what and who you need at your event
• The facilities
• What to look for when hiring a medical team
• Medical Support and First Aid At Your Event

Minimising The Risks, Increasing The Safety Of Your Event

• Signage
• Communication channels
• Emergency procedures
• Cancellation process
• Exercise: 3 case studies of accidents at events. What would you do?

Responsibilities

• Who is responsible at your event?
• Who should you talk to?

Conclusion

• The 5 steps of a risk assessment
• Time to plan your event

Resources

• Resources
• Green Guide

Quiz

• Course Quiz

Updated on 29 December, 2017