backstage safety

11-08-10

Peter Thomassen

Head of Stage Safety Coordination

Health & Safety Development

Over the last decade+…

A city with 110,000 citizens appears, A city with 110,000 citizens appears, exists for 8 days and then disappears exists for 8 days and then disappears

again!again!

We start with bare grass and 25,000 volunteers

The Purpose of The Roskilde

Festival Charity Society

“The purpose of The Roskilde Festival Charity Society is to support

initiatives in favour of children and young people and to support

humanitarian,

other common beneficial, of public utility and cultural work. The

Roskilde

Festival Charity Society’s work is independent of party politics and

has no

SAFETY

� Before 2000

� 2000

� 2001-2010

Before 2000

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2000

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The accident

� Very local

� An unfortunate coincidence of several factors

� Caused serious impact, not only to the festival,

but the entire industry and society as a whole.but the entire industry and society as a whole.

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2001-2010

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Operational Structure

Security manager

Security manager ass.

Pit supervisorsPit supervisors

Mobile teams

Spotters

Security office (CCTV)

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NO

CROWDSURFING

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CROWDSURFING

PLEASE

Control Center

� Operation manager Roskilde Festival

� Police

� Fire marshall*

� First Aid Coordinator

� Chief Doctor

� Coordinator Security

� Coordinator Social Workers

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Extract from the Authorities permission:

Roskilde Festival must prepare a risk assessment

for all activities in connection with the

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for all activities in connection with the

Arrangement, including a description of the

security measures, that will be implemented to

address the risks described in the following

areas...

Extract from the Authorities permission:

All stage areas of playing music

Access to the place of the festival

Checking in place of the festival

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Checking in place of the festival

Play areas and technical devices

•When a threat is identified, there will be an assessment of the probability of its occurrence and an assessment of the

Risk Assessment

occurrence and an assessment of the ensuing impact.

Likelihood:

Likely

Severity:

CatastrophicMajor

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LikelyPossibleUnlikelyVery Unlikely

ShowSec International Ltd - London

MajorSignificantMinorNegligible

Likely Possible UnlikelyVery

Unlikely

Catastrophic A A B *

Major A B C *

B C D *

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Significant B C D *

Minor C D * *

Negligible * * * *

ShowSec International Ltd - London

A.Unacceptable

B.High Risk

C.Medium Risk

D.Low Risk

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2003

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2004

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2005

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2006

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2006

�Festival 2007, Rain ...Again

�Operational Structure

Tower manager

Tower manager ass.

Mobile teams

SpottersFirst aid teams

Service crew

Board of directors

Section LeaderSecurity, Health & safety

Coordinator, Security, Health & safety - Stages

Head of Security, Orange Stage

Strategic - &

Tactical Planning

Coordinator, Security,

Health & safety - Camping & Access

Coordinator Control center

Head of Security, Orange Stage

Head of Security, Arena Stage

Coordinator Medic care

48/47Esben Danielsen

2009

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