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Would anyone happen to have any information regarding events safety?
I am due to become the operations manager of a professional sports team and have offered my H&S expertise to assist the organisers. The main query is that of specific risk assessment requirements and the stands that are approximately 8 tiers high which are being erected by volunteers.
Any help will be appreciated???
Thanks
Carl
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I am new to this, but understand there are Friday question that are to get people going!! I hope this is the case here, if not then please see HSG 195 for most outdoor event guidance. Otherwise you will be making some serious mastakes.
Hope this is a wind-up
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Carl, in addition you might also want to contact your local district Council. The licensing team and/or the environmental health team may be able to help and advise as the sort of thing you are describing may well be licensible. I also believe that most Councils now also have event safety action groups or similar that review events over a certain size and they may be able to help.
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Totally endorse Phils comments at #3.
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I spend most of my work in Sports Stadia both Premiership Football and Rugby - a good starting point is the Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds provided by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), commonly known as the 'Green Book' - 232 pages so some good bedtime reading there.
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Hi Carl.
Another reference is the guidance from IStructE. Temporary Demountable Structures.
As they are volunteers i would look to be ensuring their competence to erect such structures.
Risk assessments to be getting on with will be working around vehicles, plant and work equipment, manual handling, work at height and so on.
PM me with any specifics
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Hi Carl
I specialise in event H&S and would like to advise you that there are a numerous pieces of guidance that can be used to work from such as green, yellow and purple guides along with technical standards for places of entertainment. depending on what sort and size of grandstands or bleachers you are having constructed depends on the type and nature of risk assessment that is required.
As someone pointed out earlier temporay demountable structures guidance is very relevant, along with fire evacuation measures and management plans, these should complement any general emergency evacuation plans for the venue.
Just a quick heads up the whole volunteer thing erecting grandstands does worry me, don't forget you have to consider working at height and manual handling?
Another point to take seriously is person/vehicle conflict the loading and unloading of trucks
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Victor Meldrew wrote:I spend most of my work in Sports Stadia both Premiership Football and Rugby - a good starting point is the Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds provided by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), commonly known as the 'Green Book' - 232 pages so some good bedtime reading there. Thanks for the heads up on this publication. It's available as a free download at: http://www.culture.gov.u...y/publications/5153.aspx
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Thank you all for responding and your advice, it has helped loads.
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Carl It may also be useful to consider using the faciltiies of the Emergency Planning College at Easingwold, they run a number of Crowd specific courses which may be of use, these include Temporary Demountable Structures etc. Work out around £500 per person. Follow this link for more info. http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/epcollege.aspx
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