A study of group effects in pedestrian crowd evacuation: Experiments, modelling and simulation WeiXie, Eric Wai MingLee, TaoLi, MengShi, RuifengCao, YuchunZhang The presence of social groups in pedestrian crowds can…

New Page talking crowd safety Our collection In this page we have collected YouTube videos with leading members of the event safety and crowd management industry.  This includes Webinars that…

Referencing the USA It has taken us a long time to get here, but we have started. The USA is vast and complex, due to this we have always put…

Crowd Detection in Mass Gatherings Based on Social Media Data: A Case Study of the 2014 Shanghai New Year’s Eve Stampede Jiexiong Duan , Weixin Zhai  and Chengqi Cheng  Abstract:…

Place crowd safety, crowd science? Case studies and application Keith Still and Marina PapalexiDepartment of Business, Manchester Metropolitan University – All SaintsCampus, Manchester, UKYiyi FanDepartment of Management, Lancaster University, Lancaster,…

EVENT AND VENUE MANAGEMENT: MINIMIZING LIABILITY MINIMIZING LIABILITY THROUGH EFFECTIVE CROWD MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES JE’ANNA LANZA ABBOTT and MORGAN W. GEDDIE Conrad N. Hilton College, University of Houston, Houston, Texas Events…

Elite sport Stage Five – return to competition: safe return of spectators Executive summary This guidance, in conjunction with the Sports Grounds Safety Authority’s (SGSA) technical guidance SG02, supports the return…

The Manchester Arena Inquiry is an independent public inquiry, established on 22 October 2019 by the Home Secretary. The purpose of the Manchester Arena Inquiry is to investigate the deaths…

In August, the SGSA published Supplementary Guidance 02: Planning for Social Distancing at Sports Grounds (also known as SG02), which advises management on planning for the return of fans under…

“Unliess or until a vaccine is developed, or we discover medicines to treat the virus, our means of controlling the spread of infection depend on behavioural changes and hence upon…