Dissertation #3. The impact of legislation on competency → While researching crowd safety and the impact of legislation on crowd safety, one of the key themes that warranted exploring 29 Oct Dissertation
Changing crowd behaviour, staff experience, increase in show stop, near miss data → Takeaways from ILMC Production Meeting & Event Safety and Security Summit 2022 27 Apr Crowd Safety
Dissertation #2. Legislation, Regulation and Crowd Safety → Throughout my career I have been fortunate to experience event planning and approval on both sides of the Safety Advisory 20 Feb Dissertation
Dissertation #1. The Root Cause of Crowd Disasters → Crowd disasters occur when people are given insufficient information and space (Sime, 1999). It is rarely the case that only 02 Dec Dissertation
So, what is Crowd Safety? → People don't ask me this as bluntly as the title suggests, but in general I get a blank 21 Oct Crowd Safety
Why I deleted WhatsApp → Unless you’ve been living in a cave disconnected from the internet (in which case I am envious of you) 31 Jan Digital Minimalism
To prevent disaster, now is the time to study crowd safety → If I am over a decade into my career and facing the challenge of an industry that has totally collapsed, 27 Nov Crowd Safety
Episode 5: Can Events Help Antidote Fear → “In Mexico, we say hi by kissing on the cheek. I remember saying, “Is this ever going to come back? 08 Nov Pandemic
Episode 4: Airborne Transmission and Crowd Safety → Recently, a group of scientists published an open letter (Morawska and Milton, 2020) urging governments and organisations to consider that 28 Jul Pandemic
The Four S of Event Transport → When it comes to transport planning for events, major or not, there is a lot that needs to be considered. 16 Jun Zone Ex
Episode 3: On Biometric Data and Events → As the collective events industry searches for guidance on how to safely restart events, in the absence of authority leadership 06 Jun Pandemic
Episode 2: Restarting Events, Safely → It’s easy to assume that if influenza could be transmitted within the home, at school and at work, that 31 May Pandemic
Episode 1: Can the past indicate our future? 1918 Spanish Flu and Theatres → With the news that events in Germany have been cancelled until at least October 2020 and events with capacities over 30 Apr Pandemic
Risk Assessing the Nature of Crowds → This article was published in the third edition of The Crowd Magazine, a fantastic resource for all things crowd safety! 04 Apr Crowd Safety
Reflecting on a Decade of Disaster → As we enter into a new decade, many of us have been reflecting on our lives from 2010 to 2019. 30 Nov Crowd Safety
The Most Common Threats to a Crowd Event → When developing risk assessments and contingency plans, have you accounted for the threats that may harm your attendees? I looked 19 Jul Crowd Safety
What Leonardo Da Vinci can teach us about our mind → And what we need to do to bring fulfilment to our lives. 15 Sep Mind