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The event safety guide : a guide to health, safety and welfare at music and similar events / HSE.

By: Great Britain. Health and Safety Executive.
Contributor(s): Great Britain. Health and Safety Commission. Guide to health, safety and welfare at pop concerts and similar events.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Suffolk : Health & Safety Executive, 2005Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 2nd edition.Description: vi, 217 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0717624536 (paperback).Subject(s): Spectator control -- Great Britain | Concerts -- Great Britain -- Safety measuresDDC classification: 344.1045
Contents:
Planning and management -- Venue site design -- Fire safety -- Major incident planning (emergency planning) -- Communication -- Crowd management -- Transport management -- Structures -- Barriers -- Electrical installations and lighting -- Food, drink and water -- Merchandising and special licensing -- Amusements, attractions and promotional displays -- Sanitary facilities -- Waste management -- Sound: noise and vibration -- Special effects, fireworks and pyrotechnics -- Camping -- Facilities for people with special needs -- Medical, ambulance and first-aid management -- Information and welfare -- Children -- Performers -- TV and media -- Stadium music events -- Arena events -- Large events -- Small events -- Classical music events -- Unfenced or unticketed events, including roadshows -- All-night music events -- Unlicensed events -- Health and safety responsibilities.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Aims to help those who organise music events so that the events run safely. Provides information needed by event organisers, their contractors and employees to help them satisfy the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and associated regulations. It will also enable organisers to understand the needs of others concerned with events, such as the local authority and emergency services, with whom they will need to co-operate. Contains 33 chapters covering different types of venue, site provisions and facilities needed, management issues, relevant legislation.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-208) and index.

Planning and management -- Venue site design -- Fire safety -- Major incident planning (emergency planning) -- Communication -- Crowd management -- Transport management -- Structures -- Barriers -- Electrical installations and lighting -- Food, drink and water -- Merchandising and special licensing -- Amusements, attractions and promotional displays -- Sanitary facilities -- Waste management -- Sound: noise and vibration -- Special effects, fireworks and pyrotechnics -- Camping -- Facilities for people with special needs -- Medical, ambulance and first-aid management -- Information and welfare -- Children -- Performers -- TV and media -- Stadium music events -- Arena events -- Large events -- Small events -- Classical music events -- Unfenced or unticketed events, including roadshows -- All-night music events -- Unlicensed events -- Health and safety responsibilities.

CIT Module ARCH 8007 - Core reading