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Analyze risks together with RISKOM

Analyze risks together with RISKOM

Preparing a large-scale event can sometimes lead to heated discussions. The interests and perspectives can sometimes differ considerably. Our advice: bring all stakeholders to the table and organize a risk analysis meeting so that all clocks are set. A method that is...

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The raw edges of ecstasy

The raw edges of ecstasy

Doctor and epidemiologist Esther Croes, project leader of Monitor Drug Incidents, reflects on the medical consequences of ecstasy use in several blogs this summer.  Part 1. Death, horrible and unpredictable Despite the rain this summer, the festival season is in full...

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Crowd Management with the Swiss Cheese Model

Crowd Management with the Swiss Cheese Model

A blog by Roderick van Gelder I’m very honoured to be presenting at the inaugural Venue Safety & Security Exchange on 12th-13th July in Sydney.  I will be speaking on Wednesday 12th July about the use of the Swiss Cheese Model in Crowd Management.  This approach...

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Education as extra layer of protection in crowd safety

Education as extra layer of protection in crowd safety

Milad Haghani, Senior Lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering of UNSW Sydney, is, together with 19 other professionals, the author of the paper “Contemporary challenges in crowd safety...

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Analysis shows increase in crowd accidents

Analysis shows increase in crowd accidents

Scientists Claudio Feliciani, Alessandro Corbetta, Milad Haghani and Katsuhiro Nishinari executed an analysis on trends in crowd accidents. This analysis is based on a database of crowd accidents that was developed for the period of 1900-2019 through an...

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Dealing with changed crowd behaviour: always be ready

Dealing with changed crowd behaviour: always be ready

In many Western countries, experts are concerned about the increase in unruly behaviour among eventgoers and crowds at sporting events. While the event industry still has to recover from the enormous impact of COVID-19, crowd behaviour presents new...

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Crowd Safety Webinar: learning points from Astroworld

Crowd Safety Webinar: learning points from Astroworld

ESI commits itself to sharing knowledge and learning from past incidents. In this spirit, we held a webinar this month analyzing  the events that took place at the Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas, on November 9, 2021. The webinar was built around...

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Support crowds in their response to threats

Support crowds in their response to threats

In recent years, largely due to terrorist attacks, the United Kingdom has had to deal with multiple false alarm incidents, in which crowds fled, with all the consequences to their safety and health. Prof. John Drury and his team* analysed these incidents....

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