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Risk Assessments for Events

Events create constantly changing environments involving people, suppliers, temporary infrastructure, equipment, venues and activities. Understanding how to assess those risks effectively is an essential skill for anyone involved in planning or delivering events.

Risk Assessments for Events takes you step-by-step through the risk assessment process and shows you how to apply it to real event situations.
3 Hours | 12 modules | Certificate on completion

What your team will be able to do

 Understand the purpose of a risk assessment;
 Recognise hazards within an event environment;
 Identify who could be harmed and how;
 Assess likelihood and consequence;
 Determine appropriate control measures;
 Use the hierarchy of risk control;
 Record your findings clearly;
 Action and communicate your risk assessment;
 Understand supporting documents including method statements and safe systems of work;
 Review and update risk assessments when circumstances change.

Who it's for

Risk Assessments for Events has been developed for anyone who needs to understand, create, contribute to or work with risk assessments in an event environment.

That could include event managers and coordinators, venue teams, production staff, festival teams, event freelancers, charity fundraisers, wedding and conference organisers, students and anyone taking on greater responsibility for event safety.

You don’t need to be a health and safety specialist and no previous health and safety qualification is required.

The course takes the principles of risk assessment and makes them relevant, understandable and applicable to events.

Course content

01 - Welcome To GuestSafe
02 - The Unique Challenges of the Events Industry
03 - What is a Risk Assessment
04 - Why are risk assessments important?
05 - Your Legal Responsibilities
06 - Risk Assessment Terminology
07 - How to complete a Risk Assessment
08 - Control Measures and ERIC PD
09 - Risk Assessing Common Hazards
10 - Communicating Risk Assessment
11 - Final Assessment
12 - Course Wrap Up And Next Steps

YOUR TUTOR

David Stafford

David Strafford is an experienced event safety professional, consultant and award-winning university lecturer with more than 25+ years’ experience working across the events and hospitality industries.

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