by Manon Gijbels | Oct 18, 2023 | News
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...
by Manon Gijbels | Jul 6, 2023 | News
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...
by Manon Gijbels | Jun 29, 2023 | News
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 webinar...
by Manon Gijbels | Jun 27, 2023 | News
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 research and...
by Manon Gijbels | Jun 14, 2023 | News
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 appropriate way...
