The International Centre for
Crowd Management and Security Studies

Events

Conferences

The Centre for Crowd Management and Security Studies runs a series of conferences and seminars in conjunction with the United Kingdom Crowd Management Association (UKCMA), YOUROPE, the European Festival Promoters Group and the European Event Safety Focus Group (EESFG). These conferences have taken place in Noorderslag in Groningen, Popkomm in Berlin and Missenden Abbey in the UK. As well as this, seminars have been held for the Australian Government in Sydney, at Roskilde in Denmark and in connection with other smaller events across Europe, where networking opportunities have been made available. Many of our companies have supported these events.

12th EUROPEAN HEALTH AND SAFETY SEMINAR   -     26-27 MAY 2011

At Missenden Abbey 

This seminar is aimed at professionals across the events industry and takes place in the beautiful setting of Missenden Abbey, Buckinghamshire.

This event provides an ideal opportunity to network, share best practice and float new ideas with top practitioners and academics from across the industry.  The seminar will include Keynote addresses, workshops and panels covering music, sports and other events.  The event includes a gala dinner in the beautiful setting of the Abbey. 

Further details, pricing and instructions for booking online can be found at:

Programme - Thu 26 May

0930 - 0930  Coffee

0930 - 1030  Crowd Psychology

1030 - 1130  Crowd Psychology Workshop

1130 - 1200  Communication as a tool to manage the psychology of a crowd

1200 - 1315  Panel with Police and Fire etc on communicating and managing non-violent crowds

1315 - 1415  Lunch

1415 - 1515  Football crowd behaviour & parallels with festival behaviour

1515 - 1700  Workshop with participant examples

1700 - 1800  Intermediate crowd dynamics

Programme - Fri 27 May

0930 - 1000  Coffee

1000 - 1045  pressure modelling as a tool for crowd managers

1045 - 1115  Question and answer session

1115 - 1200  The crowd management plan - evacuation procedure

1200 - 1300  Groupwork workshop - What is important when creating an evacuation procedure?

1300 - 1400 Lunch

1400 - 1500 Olympic Security and Crowd Management - Working with culture and sport, issues, differences and similarities

1500 - 1630  Workshop and discussion on the issues facing the security sector