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Crowd management during Hajj pilgrimage
Crowd management is a critical aspect of ensuring the safety and well-being of the millions of pilgrims who gather in Mecca for the Hajj each year. With vast numbers of people performing the religious rituals within a short time frame, it presents significant...
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...
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...
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...
Webinar: first results from ongoing research into changed crowd behaviour at events
Prof. Dr. John Drury and his team have been commissioned by Live Nation to investigate how post-COVID behavioural change can be explained, and what an event organizer can do to encourage self-reliant and self-correcting behaviour among eventgoers. In a...
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...
Enhancing crowd safety with a ‘Swiss Cheese’ metaphor
The first Crowd Safety Summit Australia, which took place on May 22 & 23 2023 at UNSW in Sydney, resulted in an impressive scientific paper, published in Safety Science. The paper explains how a “Swiss Cheese Model” approach to crowd safety is an...
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...
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...
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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