Useful reference material
There are a variety of guidance documents available via the links below to help you plan fully for your event:
- The HSE event safety guide
- Health and Safety Executive – running an event safely
- Purple Guide
- Managing risks and risk assessment at work
- Risk assessment template
- Event safety (crowd-management)
- Planning for incidents and emergencies
- Road closures and traffic regulations (Word document)
- Event safety (transport)
- Licences for regulated entertainment or the retail sale of alcohol
- Guidance/Alcohol Licensing
- Temporary Event Notices
- Music Licence (PPL PRS)
- Food safety for outdoor events
- Providing food at community and charity events
- Chartered Institute for Environmental Health (CIEH) national guidance for outdoor and mobile catering (PDF)
- Private drinking water supplies
- West Yorkshire Police - guidance for event organisers
- Accessibility advice from GOV.UK
- Attitude is Everything - improving deaf and disabled people's access to live music
- Event safety (noise)
- what3words
- Temporary demountable structures (TDS) - stages, seating, marquees etc
- Bouncy castles and other play inflatables: safety advice
- Fire safety risk assessment guides, Open air events and venues; Small and medium places of assembly (PDF)
- Street trading
- Charitable street collections
- St John Ambulance – public advice
- Stay Safe film and Run Hide Tell advice
- Crowded places guidance
- Action Counters Terrorism – reporting suspicious behaviour
- Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure
- The HOT principle (PDF)
- Organising firework displays
- Bouncy castle and other inflatables
- Electrical Safety at places of entertainment
- Drones
- Event planning checklist (Word document)
- Event safety checklist (Word document)
- Event venue checklist (Word document)
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