Technology & Evolving Risk : Learning from the Event Industry Lessons of 2022
With wide-reaching industry exposure , Halo Solutions share their thoughts on trends that shaped the past 12 months and how they are informing the industry ’ s digital future
Halo Solutions is a room decision-makers . In world-leading provider doing so , the System builds in public safety digital audit trails that prove technology that supports appropriate actions and protection of people wherever mitigations to risk have taken they gather . Halo ’ s suite of place . Halo now supports technology transforms events , venues , events and premises venues , and businesses with in multiple sectors and an intuitive virtual command industries around the world , centre for their operations , and last year helped to helping large sites , arenas , manage over 70,000 event sports stadia and others to incidents , 600,000 venue better protect their people , checks and tasks , and safely public , premises and brand . log over 2,600 ejections for
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Across 2022 the industry has London , Halo has been as faced significantly elevated close as any to the emergent challenges to public safety . trends in consumer behaviour , From contentious public risk and public safety in the protests , post-pandemic past 12 months . consumer behaviour shifts
At its core , Halo ’ s incident and threat management platform replaces ineffective , unmoderated WhatsApp groups and overcrowded radio channels , to ensure all incidents and threats are properly reported , evaluated , dynamically updated , and resolved . Linking information seamlessly between frontline operational staff and control and crowd disorder , staff shortages , lack of training and ghosting . Resulting in highly pressurised workloads , while mixing in extreme heat conditions throughout Summer - it ’ s clear to see the intensification of crowd risks .
Bleakly , there is a solemn undertone in the crowd management arena , with a pronounced spike in the tragic loss of life at events and public places witnessed worldwide .
These issues all contextualise why reevaluations of manual eventrunning processes are now critical , and demonstrates the need for systems to assist pressurised staff and strengthen operational resilience of venues and events .
Building In Features , Designing Out Risk : Digital Solutions v Deficient Manual Processes Risky Persons and Suspicious Activity The Halo System supports security companies , event organisers and venues to mitigate against disruptive protests gaining publicity and momentum .
The adoption of the Halo Bulletin Board allows key information to be shared instantly , including a rogues ’ gallery , highlighting suspicious activity and people . Linked to incident reporting , this helps prevent disruptions from taking place and / or escalating . In future , we envision the feature supporting “ banned from one , banned from all ” judgements , through information sharing of risky persons who cause disruption / disorder at multiple venues or along tour routes , via smart information sharing within the Halo ecosystem .
Meeting Staff Training Needs Standard event planning can only plan and mitigate against standard event risks . We offer all clients bespoke , 360 Halo onboarding , training and support free of charge , so staff can maximise the vast benefits of digital event management . On top of this , our industry recognised table-tops support systematic governance and resilience . This includes multiagency inputs that create opportunities for scenarios reflecting the most critical risks for teams to discuss and plan for . Giving staff the tools , support and engagement they
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