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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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Event Profs Slated for Upgrades with New Certifications, Training Programs

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However, registering provides all access to webinars, on-demand videos, downloadable documents and much more.”. “Program participants can select and attend only the courses that matter to them and their specific role in their organization.

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Concert touring industry unites to launch covid-19 working guidance

Event Industry News

This responsive document is designed to add to existing guidance outlining practical measures that will inform tour-specific risk assessments and method statements. More than a document, this is intended to be a responsive set of protocols that efficiently move with a changing environment.”.

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Security Flaw at Business Conference Makes Headlines

MeetingsNet

An on-stage incident involving a presenter and attendee raises the question: Can organizers account for every possibility when creating an event’s risk-management plan? After the session ended, the details of that interaction came out: Wilde had been served child-custody documents.

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Four Crucial Questions To Ask When Developing an Effective Contingency Plan for Events

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Your response plan should be viewed as a living document, one that can always be amended should the unexpected—or, as we saw with the pandemic, the unprecedented—should arise.

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Events Industry Council releases Accepted Practices Guide for Hotel Health and Safety

Event Industry News

Understanding the essential element of rebuilding and regaining trust, other elements of this guide, available as stand-alone documents, include: Events Industry Council Principles for Recovery , which correspond with U.N. In July, EIC released the Meeting and Event Design Accepted Practices Guide.

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What to Expect from Event Safety in 2021

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Cartotto is complex director of security and risk management for Caribe Royal Orlando in Florida. Planners know to be up to date on the documented protocols of hotels that follow, local, state and federal guidelines, but that’s just the start. Of the many things this year has taught us, one is that you can never be too prepared.

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