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“In Mexico, we say hi by kissing on the cheek. I remember saying, “Is this ever going to come back?” I used to go to a gym, and they closed the gym. But when I went back in mid-June, one of the people who used to go there came out
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Recently, a group of scientists published an open letter (Morawska and Milton, 2020) urging governments and organisations to consider that airborne transmission of the COVID-19/SARS-COV-2 virus may be more impactful than surface transmission. In this letter they suggested the following low cost and effective measures to reduce the risk
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As the collective events industry searches for guidance on how to safely restart events, in the absence of authority leadership and advice, we look to each other. Scientists, academics and health & safety consultants are faced with the challenge of providing answers to the many questions we ask. Journal articles,
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It’s easy to assume that if influenza could be transmitted within the home, at school and at work, that the risk is exponential at a sports event or festival. Evidence has shown us that if restrictions on mass gatherings are implemented early on in pandemic, alongside other social distancing
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With the news that events in Germany have been cancelled until at least October 2020 and events with capacities over 5000 are banned in Ireland until the end of August, industry professionals are looking to each other and news articles to find some indication of how our industry will be
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This article was published in the third edition of The Crowd Magazine. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly conducting risk assessments in our everyday life. From crossing the road to walking down steps, subconsciously we are dynamically assessing the likelihood of a hazard occurring. Identifying
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As we enter into a new decade, many of us have been reflecting on our lives from 2010 to 2019. I couldn’t help but put it in the perspective of crowd disasters, to understand if there was anything we could reflect on and take the learnings with us into
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When developing risk assessments and contingency plans, have you accounted for the threats that may harm your attendees? I looked at crowd disasters over the last thirty years and identified the ones that occured due to an external threat (compared to internal weaknesses, which I will discuss another time). If