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Working With Crowds is a free crowd safety management resource. New to our site, we provide a calendar of crowd incidents that have happened through the years. This allows you to view the catalogue of incidents in an easier format.
As the site develops, we will add more and we are still searching for some information. You may find some of the hyperlinks are not active until we add the information.
Crowd Safety Management Resources
Working With Crowds is a free crowd safety management resource for event organisers, security teams, venue operators, researchers and students. We research and document crowd incidents from antiquity to the present day, so the lessons of past crowd disasters can inform safer events today.
What you will find on this site
Our crowd incident archive contains structured, source-based reports on more than 800 crowd incidents, including crushes, venue fires, structural collapses and evacuations. You can also browse crowd disasters by year, from events before 1900 through to the present day.
For practitioners, our UK crowd safety guidance library brings together the key documents used in crowd safety management, including the Green Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds, the Purple Guide, fire safety risk assessment guides and HSE guidance on running events safely. We also cover the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025, commonly known as Martyn’s Law, and what it means for venues and events.
Why crowd safety management matters
History shows that most crowd tragedies are not caused by so-called panic, but by failures in planning, design, information and management. Good crowd safety management means understanding crowd behaviour, calculating safe capacities, planning ingress and egress, and preparing for the unexpected. By studying what went wrong in the past, and what nearly went wrong, we help those responsible for crowds make better decisions.
The site is independent, run for the crowd safety community, and continually updated as new incidents, research and guidance emerge.
