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Supporting Role Develops On-Line Risk Assessment Tool for Event Safety Project
London-based Supporting Role Ltd has been awarded the contract to write the first-ever Europe-wide on-line Risk Assessment tool and resource database for the live music and event industry.
The tool will be web-based, free to use by all, and will be relevant to all events from the smallest to the largest, covering every role from stewarding to technical. A team made up of the ILMC Safety Focus Group (SFG) and Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College (BCUC) is behind the project.
Supporting Role won the contract following its successful development of a number of software-based Risk Assessment tools for other clients in the event industry, including Jack Morton Worldwide, SPS, VLPS, Stagestruck Technical Services and Summit Steel.
The tool’s introduction follows a two-year international funding effort by the SFG, which was formed by the ILMC (International Live Music Conference), after the Roskilde Festival disaster in 2000, to raise safety standards at live events. Its development has been partly funded by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (OSHA), and partly by promoters, agents and service providers within the live music industry. It enables users to draw on the enormous wealth of knowledge and experience of the members of the Safety Focus Group, a world-wide body.
The tool will help anybody working in the event industry to put together a risk assessment for themselves and the people they are responsible for. For organisers of smaller events this legal requirement can be an onerous and demanding task. Until now there has been no widely-available tool to help organisers accurately assess risks involved with every event, covering the whole gamut of risks from personal safety to traffic and crowd management, fire and even terrorist threats.
“The site will reflect the best, proven safety practice throughout the world,” adds Marco van Beek, “as the SFG’s expertise comes from their members all over the world.”
Supporting Role founder Marco van Beek says that a major challenge in developing the system is the requirement for it to be multilingual. “Every button, every link, every message has to be able to be displayed in a minimum of four languages. We can’t even rely on the length of words being remotely similar.”
Linked to the tool will be a resource database full of case studies, links to useful and official sites, scenarios to help clarify particular dangers, and more. The project is due for completion in autumn 2004.
10th August 2004
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