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    How to Approach Writing a Risk Assessment for Event Managers
    How to Approach Writing a Risk Assessment for Event Managers
    How to Approach Writing a Risk Assessment for Event Managers
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    How to Approach Writing a Risk Assessment for Event Managers

    By John Barber

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    The preparation of a Risk Assessment is now an essential requirement for anyone planning a community event. This book is intended as a guide for those unfamiliar with organising fairs, village fetes and town centre celebrations; and a handy revision guide for those more experienced.

    It is based on the author’s experience as Project Manager on a wide variety of community events as well as Christmas Lights, Farmers Markets, Continental markets and late night shopping events.

    During 8 years he worked closely with Council Officers, the Emergency Services and Highways Agencies.

    A Risk Assessment is not designed to make event management difficult but to help the organiser identify and minimise potential risks to the general public.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Barber
    Release dateNov 29, 2012
    ISBN9781301538539
    How to Approach Writing a Risk Assessment for Event Managers
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    John Barber

    John Barber was born in London at the height of the UK Post War baby boom. The Education Act of 1944 saw great changes in the way the nation was taught; the main one being that all children stayed at school until the age of 15 (later increased to 16). For the first time working class children were able to reach higher levels of academic study and the opportunity to gain further educational qualifications at University.This explosion in education brought forth a new aspirational middle class; others remained true to their working class roots. The author belongs somewhere between the two. Many of the author’s main characters have their genesis in this educational revolution. Their dialogue though idiosyncratic can normally be understood but like all working class speech it is liberally sprinkled with strange boyhood phrases and a passing nod to cockney rhyming slang.John Barber’s novels are set in fictional English towns where sexual intrigue and political in-fighting is rife beneath a pleasant, small town veneer of respectability.They fall within the cozy, traditional British detective sections of mystery fiction.He has been writing professionally since 1996 when he began to contribute articles to magazines on social and local history. His first published book in 2002 was a non-fiction work entitled The Camden Town Murder which investigated a famous murder mystery of 1907 and names the killer. This is still available in softback and as an ebook, although not available from SmashwordsJohn Barber had careers in Advertising, International Banking and the Wine Industry before becoming Town Centre Manager in his home town of Hertford. He is now retired and lives with his wife and two cats on an island in the middle of Hertford and spends his time between local community projects and writing further novels.

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      How to Approach Writing a Risk Assessment for Event Managers - John Barber

      Introduction

      Up to about 2003 or 2004 most community events up and down the country were run by an army of enthusiastic amateurs. Then almost overnight the same people were asked to submit event plans and risk assessments to their local councils for approval to run an event. These were often events that had been run successfully for many years previously without any accident or major mishap. About this time Public Liability Insurance also became a major issue.

      These twin requirements resulted in a wave of traditional community events being cancelled; in some cases never to return. The people that had been happy to run events without payment or reward found themselves unable to cope with the paperwork and bureaucracy that had to be completed.

      The organisers faded away and it was some time before new people arrived to take up the challenges. There came a sudden realisation amongst the law makers that in their pursuit of safety they had pushed the ordinary man a bit too far; and their attitude towards events and the organisations that worked to stage them had to soften.

      From 2001 until 2005 I had been the Project Manager for my own town’s annual free Fun Day staged in the first week of June. This attracted over 10,000 people into the town centre. At the beginning we just followed our own plan but this also become hostage to the new raft of safety measures which had been introduced.

      In 2004 I took the most unpopular decision of my entire career by cancelling the town’s Medieval Night. This was a late night shopping event in November with stalls, entertainment and a fair to kick-start the Christmas season and was closed with a fireworks

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