complete an abridged crowd management plan

2049EXQ CW2 – Information Sheet From site plans of the Star Stadium and the supporting information (below) you are required to complete an abridged crowd management plan for the inner field and the front of stage pit area for a one-day Extreme Metal festival in an industry report format. For the purposes of this coursework, it is assumed that all restrictions relating to SARS-Cov-2/Covid19 have been lifted. You should plan for a “normal” capacity. The festival takes place on 30th January 2021, and is an all-day festival featuring artists Heaven Shall Burn (headliner – on stage 21:30), Arch Enemy (on stage 20:00), Watain (on stage 18:00 – extra 30 minutes required afterwards for clean up), Venom Prison (on stage 16:30), Darkestrah (on stage 15:00) and Morne (on stage 13:30). Doors open at 12noon, the music curfew is 23:00 and the venue must be clear by midnight. The concert is expected to attract a full capacity crowd. The venue is licensed for the sale of alcohol. The crowd profile is expected to be 75% male; 25% female, age range 21yrs – 40yrs. Your responsibility does not go beyond the queues outside the venue, the ingress, circulation and egress of the concourse access areas to the inner field (white), the inner field (green) and front of stage area; you are not responsible for the grandstand seating areas or the guarding of the venue or backstage area. Ensure your plan is in a format that is easy to navigate and include elements to support version control.Outline the most significant crowd-related risks posed within your areas of responsibility at the rock concert, and include the profile of the crowd and its likely cultural activities.Produce a sample risk assessment for ingress, circulation and egress, demonstrating your methodology by selecting three risks for each phase. Explain how these risks will be mitigated and how your chosen mitigations will be managed and by whom. Support this with a Site Survey and an EVA.Design ingress structures and procedures, including queue arrangements, for a two-hour ingress. Show your calculations, and consider any necessary contingency arrangements.Design egress structures and procedures for both normal and emergency situations. Show your calculations. Emergency egress for this venue is eight minutes with the loss of one exit.Design the front-of-stage and audience circulation arrangements and explain why you have chosen them – relate these to the cultural behaviour of the audience.Select and explain the management structure you have chosen for the planning and operational phases of the event.Explain how a Show Pause/Stop/Evacuation and associated procedures would occur, and describe the pre-event planning required for such a safety measure. The word count does not allow for a comprehensive plan so you must use your discretion in deciding the depth to which each question and topic is to be covered – use diagrams, maps and bullet points to express yourself clearly and succinctly – remember, this is an operational plan. Include a references list at the end (this is not part of the wordcount). Arrival and Dispersal phases, staff deployment and costing plans, transport plans, staff accreditation arrangements, major incident plans, and arrangements for police handover, malicious threat or emergency services liaison are NOT REQUIRED as part of this submission. Technical information to support ingress and egress: It is the responsibility of the candidate to use the information provided to establish stadium pitch capacity, based upon available ground space and exit capacity. All ingress must take place at turnstiles 40-57. Each turnstile is represented as a dot on the map and is 55cm wide. Turnstile 51 is reserved for wheelchair access and is 1m wide. All turnstiles can be left in the fully open position for evacuation. Though ingress should be staggered over the day, no member of the public must queue for more than 30 minutes to get into the stadium. Turnstiles 4-39 are not available for pitch evacuation, and the pitch may not be evacuated into or through the stands. The total evacuation time for this stadium is eight minutes, so the pitch evacuation time must be calculated to enable safe onward evacuation out of the stadium within the given time. Emergency exits (5 metres each) are available at points A, B, C, D – these are not available during ingress. Ingress and Egress gates at the corners of the pitches (“1, 3, 4, 5”) and at point “2” are 5m wide. Widths and lengths of egress routes are marked in red – no physical obstruction exists where these red markings are placed. If further measurements are needed the candidate is to make reasonable assumptions and demonstrate these in any calculations. Marks will not be withheld where assumptions are reasonable. The space allocated for the stage and other production equipment are the physical footprint of the installation only. Additional space may need to be calculated for barriers, fencing, etc. Areas that are Out of Bounds (OOB) to the public are marked in orange. Toilets: NE & NW: These toilets are underneath the stand, visible from the concourse, but not the pitch. The layout for each location is: Female: 20 single-cubicle toilets, accessed by a 2-metre wide door. Male: 10 single-cubicle toilets, urinal for 20, accessed by a 2-metre wide door. Accessible toilets: 3, each accessed by separate 1.5-metre wide door. SE & SW: These toilets are set into the stand and visible from the pitch. The layout for each location is: Female: 20 single-cubicle toilets, accessed by a 2-metre wide door. Male: 10 single-cubicle toilets, urinal for 20, accessed by a 2-metre wide door. Accessible toilets: 3, each accessed by separate 1.5-metre wide door. Catering: Three catering units are underneath the stand and face out onto the concourse, and two are on the rear of the pitch. These sell hot and cold drinks and lager in plastic bottles. The average rate of service is 30 seconds per customer, and each unit has six members of staff. Merchandise will be sold from the catering units on the pitch before and after the concert.