Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Event Safety Alliance Summit 2018
Performing Arts Readiness: This year’s event, “Designing for Safety: Planning, Creativity, and the Art of Problem Solving,” explored intentional design and safety/operational plans, training, event structures, and careers. This year’s summit was a comprehensive and inclusive survey of all aspects of event emergency preparedness, comprised of over 20 presentations by the very best folks in the industry.
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This looks like a really interesting and comprehensive set of talks and I’m now looking into going to the 2019 Safety Summit. I know most people tend to avoid safety conversations and find them dull, but they are really important even if they are not as exciting as discussions about new technology and interesting projects. I like that these talks include topics ranging from crisis management to health of employees, and really get into analyzing situations and thinking about a variety of factors. As people who are involved in organizing large events, it is our responsibility to consider audience safety, performer safety, and worker safety. Whether I end up going to the 2019 conference or not, I will definitely be looking into the available information from these presentations. Looking at the talks that will be available at the next conference, it is really amazing how broad of a range of talks there are and how specific many of the discussions get.
I like how this article talked about the macro and the micro. When talking about crowd management I’m always reminded of my high school fire drills, where a common sentiment was a joking thought of, “if this were real, we’d be dead”. Although everyone in school was clear of the evacuation policies, the reality of being in a school with 2200 students, being on the 4th floor ment that when you got to the stairwell you would just be waiting for the entire second and third floors to leave before you could squeeze in. in an event situation, where there are 25,000 people in an arina, Id emagine the effect to be 10 fold. Thats why its so important to design with safety in mind so there is not a thousand people just sitting in a stairwell. On the micro level, the comment on safety this article provided is scarily relevant, eating and sleeping well when your working with dangerous equipment is not only important to you but to those around you. Imagine loading weight super tired, you could kill someone. Overall this article provided some helpful insights on safety.
This is a highly interesting article and summit for me, and I think I would love to attend it some time in the near future. The article does a great job of showing that no two situations, venues, or even crowds are the same. For something that requires evacuation Usually, the rule of thumb is, get everyone out as fast and as organized as possible, but this changes depending on where the venue is or how intoxicated a crowd may be. One part of this that I found really interesting is the section on mosh pit management, mosh pits are usually pretty rowdy and sometimes unsafe. I've had friends that have near passed out in mosh pits, and I myself have come out of mosh pits with a lot of unexpected bruises, but hey thats a part of the experience. I don't think that banning mosh pits does any good, often times people go for the pits, they can and are pretty fun. Finding a safe way to manage mosh pits is something that I think is still developing, and it completely changes when you analyze a Mac deMarco versus a Deathgrips concert.
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