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Crowd safety starts with belonging
By Eszter Hollósy, Intern at ESI Organizing safe events goes beyond fences and regulations. Research reveals that crowd psychology, especially the social identity approach (SIA), offers transformative benefits, backed by real-world applications, including...
Vehicle Attacks on Events: What Can Be Done to Protect Our Crowds?
In recent years, several vehicle-based attacks targeting crowds have taken place globally, where vehicles have been used as weapons. The term "hostile vehicle" refers to a vehicle that is deliberately used to cause harm, often by driving into crowds at busy events....
Hexagons: The Secret Weapon for Safer, Smarter, Crowds
A guest blog by Alan Wilson, ‘Crowd Control Guy’ in Western Australia Let’s talk about hexagons, the unsung hero of crowd safety and pedestrian mobility. You might think I’m obsessed. Well, you’d be right! If you’re still planning events and public spaces...
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...
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