Why plan for an emergency at your event?
All events - no matter what their size or scale need to plan for emergencies. If you don't, you are risking people being injured... or worse!
This area covers a range of topics aimed at explaining how to plan for and manage an emergency at your event and how to prepare an Emergency Management Plan for your event.
If budget allows you should consider engaging a qualified and experienced individual or company to undertake the development of your Emergency Management Plan.
In the event of a major incident occurring the venue or site is by law considered a crime scene and comes under the control of Victoria Police.
Once the emergency services arrive on site they assume control of the situation and the site.
An Emergency Management Plan should include:
- An Emergency Response Plan
- Emergency Response Guides
- First Aid planning
- Evacuation planning
- Fire prevention planning
- Emergency communications
- Infection control planning
- Security and Crowd Control planning.
You should also understand your obligations to report major incidents to Worksafe.
Event emergency response plan
With any large crowd gathering in a public space, it is imperative that you plan for an emergency, including how to safely evacuate attendees.
Event emergency response guides
Your Emergency Response Plan should have numerous response guides, which are summaries of actions that advise staff how to react to different scenarios in the event of an emergency.
First aid planning at events
You may need to provide accredited first aid officers at your event.
Fire management and prevention
The management of fire is an important element to manage for any event.