


Health & Safety
Events

Events Health and Safety
The complex world of events health and safety can seem daunting to even the most experienced organiser.
Safetying is experienced in ensuring safe and healthy events on every scale from large fields full of moving vehicles and campers to small community events.
Who do we work with?

Local community events
Village greens, town squares, church halls. Small - medium events organised by a group of local volunteers can seem tricky and expensive to manage. Safetying can help navigate your requirements.


Large events
Held in private or public grounds, catering to crowds and requiring additional permission and planning, Safetying can help get everything together and work with SAG on your behalf.

Pride
Safetying is a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community and proud to help support and develop safe and happy pride.
How do we work?
Safetying has worked with Events of all sizes from small local community volunteer run events, to Steam rallies and National Vintage Traction Engine events, to Pride events large and small.
Safetying can help you with:
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Crowd Safety management
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SAG requirements for planning and event permissions
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Event contractor management
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Event Fire safety
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Event Fire Risk Assessment
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Martyn's Law requirements
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Event safety management set up to strip down
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Volunteer safety management
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Event hygiene
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Focussed training
Check out our Services page for more details or feel free to contact us directly to talk about what we can do for your venue. For more information on the training we offer please check the Training page for more information.
Events Health and Safety
Responsibility for Theatre health and safety - Who is responsible for health and safety in theatres and arts venues?
Theatre health and safety is the responsibility of the employer, In large professionally run venues and companies this is the person at in charge of the company on your paycheque.
Charity or volunteer run spaces the responsibility is owned potentially by a number of people, companies or charities.
Theatre and arts venues regardless of their status all have legal duties under the health and safety at work act.
Theatre health and safety considerations
Theatres and arts venues have a number of health and safety considerations.
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Premises compliance
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Equipment safety
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Employee health and safety (volunteers are included in this too)
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Audience health and safety
HEALTH and safety - What are the considerations for health?
Health can include a number of considerations depending on the work being undertaken and how this is undertaken. Sometimes overlooked as the harm is usually less or not immediately obvious in the same way as a physical injury.
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Noise at work
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Hand arm vibration (HAVS)
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COSHH - exposure and use of harmful substances
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Stress management

Finance vs Safety
The price of compliance may have you running for the exit or burying your head in the sand but the universal truth is that prevention is cheaper than the cure.
Knowing you need to ensure safe environments should not be a gamble on how long you can hold out. Safetying was created to help make sure Health and Safety is accessible and not an expensive imposition. Everything we do for you is priced in advance and we always work to make the solution fit the budget - even where there is no budget!
For more information on how we can make Health and Safety affordable for you please see our prices page or let's have a brew and see how we can help.