Event Risk Management Solutions - ERMS

Thursday 30th Sept - free registration to the "Physical and Psycho-social Aspects of Protecting Crowded Space" online course. Don't miss this opportunity to listen to industry thought leaders (proudly my friends & colleagues) discussing crowd safety & security challenges & the future risk horizon.

Online Course in the Physical and Psychosocial Aspects of Protecting Crowded Space this September 2021 | Mind Over Matter MOM and CDSSL are offering a free, online and interactive course on the 30th September 2021 which focuses on protecting crowded space.

Looking forward to joining industry and terrorism experts William Braniff, Anna Mansueti & Erin Miller at tomorrows' SIA GovSummit 2021 session: The Nashville 2020 Attack on Critical Infrastructure: From Specifics to Implications. 1:45pm–3:00pm EST. Registration for the GOvSummit is free for Government/Military/Defense/Public Safety Employees.

The Nashville 2020 Attack on Critical Infrastructure: From Specifics to Implications | SIA GovSummit On Christmas Day 2020, an RV parked outside of an AT&T transmission center exploded in a suicidal and conspiracy-fueled act of targeted violence, damaging over 40 buildings and injuring at least eight local residents. The bombing and the second-order impacts led to cell service disruptions in at lea...

As we continue to prepare Covid-19 compliant event safety and management plans in anticipation for return to events, as event organizers, we also need to not lose sight of the importance of reviewing & updating event evacuation plans. In early 2020, ERMS & Blerter published our findings from the 2019 events industry survey into the preparedness and resilience of event teams - 163 respondents from seven countries. The findings and insights from the survey responses were surprising: 37% of the respondents indicated that they did not have an evacuation plan & 75% indicated that they had never conducted evacuation training or drills with their team.
Event evacuation plans & other emergency response procedures are a critical component of your risk management plan. These risk control measures may not prevent the risk from occurring but they will reduce the potential severity of consequences (harm) after an adverse incident has occurred, be it a severe weather triggered evacuation of your event or an active assailant incident. Not having an evacuation plan nor testing and exercising your plan, means that you as an event organizer may be breaching your duty of care to mitigate foreseeable risks to ‘a level as low as reasonably possible’. To address some of these industry knowledge gaps that the survey had identified, I co-hosted a webinar with EarthNetWorks titled "Staying Ahead of the Storm Front: Risk Based Decisions & Responses during Severe Weather Events" in late 2019. The presentation provides an overview of the principles for developing a risk-based evacuation plan & can be downloaded from the link below. My parting question is "how prepared and resilient is your event team for adverse events in today's volatile and uncertain world?
https://get.earthnetworks.com/hubfs/Weather%20Safety%20Warmup/WSW%20Nov_Staying%20Ahead%20of%20the%20Storm%20Front.pdf