Introduction
The
writer was focusing more on crowd management. Crowd management is defined as
the regular planning and supervision of, the orderly movement and gathering of
people. Crowd troughs must determine a wide range of information about a venue
and the people occupying it before a group assembly occurs (Fruin, 2002). The
crowd management was very easy and effective at these event because all the
tables had boxes of chibuku for the whole crowd to drink, the security guards
were also there to control the situation. The event was held at the chibuku
warehouse and the gates were also locked so that people don’t just go in and
out as they please.
According
to the Health and Safety Executive (2000) as an early priority, you need to
make sure that you can control and manage crowd safety for the type of event
and at the venue you have chosen. An acceptable level of crowd density varies
according to the venue. An initial walk around your proposed venue, carrying
out a visual checkup, is essential to find out both the correct and the
acceptable level of crowd density for your event. Work safe Victoria (2007)
illustrate that managing crowds involves major risk. The degree, strictness and
exposure to risk will vary depending on the situations crowd controllers find
themselves in, how well crowd control staff have been prepared and how
successfully risks have been controlled.
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