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Risk Management: Addressing Meeting Emergencies When the Industry Resumes

SmartMeetings

Why should meeting professionals address risk? When it comes to risk management , there are two questions Coffey likes to pose to meetings planners: If an emergency were to occur during one of your meetings, do you think your client would expect you to know what to do or at least have an organized course of basic action?

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Recent Incidents Highlight Need for Risk Management

MeetingsNet

A veteran security consultant says that planners should implement many of the same protocols used for executive-level events across all their meetings. One area in particular where planners might want to perform risk management at a higher level for all their meetings is in vetting hotel staff.

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Top tips for planning your event security

Eventinterface

Mark Deane, CEO with ETS Risk Management brings years of experience to this conversation. Mark is a risk management specialist whose experience stems from his career working as an Operational Officer for the British Government. An event security company should be consulted right at the start of the planning process.

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Event Planners’ Duty of Care During the Pandemic

PCMA Convene

4 Risk Management Questions for Meeting Hosts. As you develop your plan, consider these four difficult questions and how to incorporate your responses in your risk-management planning: Will our preventive measures align with health authority guidelines or will we invest in extra precautions? Sample Duty of Care Release.

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Concert touring industry unites to launch covid-19 working guidance

Event Industry News

Pictured: Roger Waters performing at BST Hyde Park. Based around a hierarchy of control (including elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administration and PPE) and a responsive threat scale, the guidance details different levels of design, schedule and control measures appropriate to conditions.

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How to Use Social Media to Improve Your 2019 Events

Smart Meetings

Smart Meetings contacted Sharlet Brennan, a content marketing consultant and president of Brennan Communications, for tips on how to leverage all that traffic for events. Risk Management. Social media consulting company Locowise reports the average engagement rate for video posts on Facebook is at 5.23 percent.

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Best of 2024: Event Safety and Security

Smart Meetings

Alan Kleinfeld, senior director of meetings and safety at Arrive Management Group, shared a few tips about what meeting profs could do, which can apply to this specific scenario and event safety in general. Caspian Agency CEO Heather Mason suggests weighting risk, a process of understanding the concepts of frequency and impact of incidents.

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