Crowd Control measures during mega event

Controlling the big crowd during some mega event must take in account before event planning and arrangements. Event like sports, concerts, rally, theater or parade having a huge number of people, safety measures must acquire to guarantee the protection of the visiting crowd. The primary factor of any event is comfortable, relax and unwind environment. The whole planning process of crowd control must be in organize, evaluating, systematic and classy manner.

Risk and threats involved during the mass gatherings in events are usually:

1- Crushing between the people while making queue

2- Crushing between the people on the barriers

3- Seating problems or narrow planted stalls cause congestion in the space

4- Viewers get hyper while some music concerts

5- Blast causing fire due to gas leakage, fire crackers

6- Drug and alcohol abuse

7- Heavy traffic cause collisions between cars

8- Collapse of fence or stage on people

So behavior of the public and any demerits at venue needs a proper structure to follow and implement earlier to the event. Stuff to be checked by the event planner is, type and size of crowd, safety equipment provided and emergency procedure to be followed immediately at the time of some accident.

Some of the safety measures to control crowd are illustrated below:

Crowd education:

Threats usually faced are: problem created by crowd itself, problem created by the outside crowd, environmental disorders. Most important element is to teach the crowd that how to behave and act. Proper knowledge can be set about own safety measures. This involves fire drills, first aid box, safe driving, escape procedures etc. Media can also play an important role in educating public by running public service messages on TV or radio. People must be dampening to use matchbox for cigarette or fire crackers. Small blunder of someone can cause big blast during the event and loss of lives of number of people. Drugs and alcohol use is the dilemma and crisis of whole world. Chain work of local government, police and event organizer is needed to avert any failure.

Queuing:

Usually line up problems come while buying a ticket or entering the event location. Ensure about the large space for people to make queue easily. Number of ticket sellers must be employed to sell tickets in highly sort out manner. Again discipline is required when people will check in after getting ticket. Lot of ticket checker should check ticket and let the people to enter one by one. Make certain that ticket counter get close after selling of tickets to avoid overcrowding.

Seating arrangement:

Allocate fix seats to every person. Set adequate space between the seats. Don’t allow anyone to stand around the seats. Number of people invited must not exceed the total number of seats. Ushers can be used to control the venue and help the audiences to find their seats.

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Barriers:

Barriers are usually used to line up the route, control behavior and aggression among the audience. They prevent pressure and overcrowding .Check the risk involvement before the ground implementation of barriers.

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