Crowd Control & Emergency Plans for Events
The hospitality industry and event/meetings management are areas of interest to me as a speaker, trainer, author, and television host because the industry hires people like me. Therefore I pay attention to what happens within the industry.
The Love Parade incident – more like disaster – in Germany, is a study in crowd control and access management for planners, government officials, safety and security personnel, and more. It also causes everyone who attends an event to consider event safety and how they might react to emergency situations, observing how they enter and exit, what provisions appear to be made for a safe and secure experience, and whether there is anything that may give them pause to following through with attending.
Communication, observation, decision-making, research, knowledge and experience, and risk-taking are all disciplines involved in planning and executing safe events. This link takes you to a schematic and lots of photos of what led up to, and happened at, the Love Parade.