Tag: event saftey
Elf But No Safety
In the case of Dufosse v Melbry Events Ltd, an elderly lady accompanying five members of her family to Santa’s grotto at a well known department store in London fell during the visit injuring her leg. She successfully sued the events management company organising the festive treat blaming Santa and his elf for failing to [...]
Lincoln Christmas Market Cancelled
The Lincoln Christmas Market has been cancelled due to the severe weather conditions in the city and the wider region. Snow has fallen in Lincolnshire and across the country for most of the week, with more snow predicted into the weekend. The market normally attracts more than 160,000 people to the city from across the [...]
Event promoters are asked to relocate portable toilets – Innocent people contaminated and injured
UK Event Safety are appealing to event promoters to reconsider the manner in which portable toilets are located at events after being involved in a number of instances of people deliberately tipping the toilets over. Although this is certainly not a new thing, it is extremely dangerous and the act leads to serious contamination of [...]
Death at T in the Park
A man has collapsed and died at the end of the first night of the T in the Park music festival. The man, 24, from Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, collapsed at around midnight at the festival, in Balado, near Kinross, as he made his way from the main area towards the campsite. He was pronounced dead [...]
TESS ensures Glastonbury’s 40th year is the safest ever
Glastonbury, 23rd – 28th June 2010, saw the lowest accident statistics and best medical records at its 40th birthday bash. Dick Tee, Glastonbury Festival Production Manager: “The ongoing proactive approach to health and safety TESS have encouraged throughout the Glastonbury Festival community has made for an ever safer site” TESS has worked with Glastonbury since [...]
Cheese-rolling event in Gloucestershire cancelled after safety concerns
This year’s cheese-rolling event in Gloucestershire has been cancelled after concerns about safety because of the number of spectators it attracts. Organisers of the event at Cooper’s Hill near Brockworth said 15,000 people attended last year’s event – more than three times the site’s capacity. Police and the local authority are working with the cheese [...]
Security Planning Pays off at Glastonbury
Put nearly 140,000 people and hundreds of attractions – from the mainstream to the truly surreal – into several thousand acres of prime English farmland for a weekend and, without very carefully managed safety and stewarding, there is the potential for many problems. But with the long-term planning and careful site management of companies like [...]
Reading Festival is ‘not suitable for children’
Reading Festival is not suitable for young children, organiser Melvin Benn said. Following complaints from a dad who took his 12-year-old son to the festival last year, Mr Benn said he would consider safety options for this year’s event. But he said this week: “I thought about it and decided, actually, Reading Festival is not [...]
Monster truck crushes promoter at event
A monster truck show promoter, who days earlier touted his event’s safety record, died after being crushed by one of the trucks during a show in Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday night. George Eisenhart’s death was the second fatality at a monster truck event in just over a week. “Saturday’s incident, which is an uncommon occurrence, … [...]
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