Festival & Outdoor Events Show Show Guide 2018 | Page 15

Official Show Guide 2018
15 - Day 2 Schedule
Day 2 – SaFest
Emergency Planning 4 Events
Training
Conference
10.30 am - 11.15 am
Not every festival or event runs as planned. Incidents occur that are beyond the
control of the event organiser. To ensure the safety of all, we have the responsibility
to protect and mitigate the impacts of an emergency. This presentation looks at the
key elements of emergency management and the issues, training and competencies
required to deal with them.
Beverley Griffiths, Director of Resilience, Cabinet Office Emergency Planning College
Event Law, Legislation and Brexit
12.00 pm - 12.45 pm
A presentation dealing with the impact of Brexit on safety law and legislation for the
festival and event industry in the UK and how event safety will be affected.
Eddy Grant, Senior Lecturer, University of Derby
Managing Complex Crowded Places 
13.30 pm - 14.15 pm
Complexity comes in many forms. In examining this from a crowded places
perspective we tend to consider dynamics-related issues and traditionally-accepted
geographically complex events, be they single site or multi-site. This session will
investigate some of the additional layers that contribute to complexity, including
command and control, integration and interoperability, management structures,
historical inertia, cultural issues, audience profile and threat and risk perspectives.
Balanced against this, it will explore the growing role for the crowd safety manager
and the means by which crown management planning might identify and manage
such complexity.
Emma Parkinson, Senior Lecturer, Coventry University
The Event Safety Landscape 
15.00 pm - 15.45 pm
A survey of the current issues effecting safety at events. What is the effect of no real
pathway for training? Why are the same mistakes repeated time and again?  An
overview of the major issues identified in the real world in the last two seasons and
what is required to address these issues going forward.
Eric Stuart, Founder, Gentian Events