PSA: THE BIGGER PICTURE
THE ART OF GOOD SAFETY CONFERENCING The PSA made the transatlantic journey to Lititz, Pennsylvania, for the annual Event Safety Summit…
I’m not a big fan of safety conferences; they’re generally populated by people with a propensity for out-acronyming each other, usually ending with nods of violent agreement and not a lot learned. The best safety conferences are the ones populated with those with something to learn and delivered by those willing to speak their language. This year’s Event Safety Summit (ESS), assembled by the Event Safety Alliance (ESA), delivered all that and much more. To grow an audience is a challenge in itself, but when you’re drawing on a diverse pool of potential delegates, to achieve patrons made up of suppliers, vendors, event organisers, safety specialists, production managers and venues and keep them engaged with relevant content that expands knowledge and understanding is a monumental task. It’s simply not enough to have people leave agreeing that something must be done; the real achievement is when people leave knowing what they need to do and how they can do it.
To that end, the Event Safety Summit, held once again at the ultra impressive Rock Lititz campus (now with an added hotel!), with an overall theme of planning for safety, delivered a more interactive event, with subject sessions pitched at different levels of understanding. Simply put, those that had attended previously could learn more than before, whilst others could engage at entry level about new subjects. The interactive approach delivered the added advantage of learning from shared experience with all the benefits of meeting new, like minded people. From its inception, the ESA has reacted to the issues of the day and who’s going to blame them. When I first learned of the initiative at Tour Link a few years back, it was simply a gathering of people who thought that stages falling down and killing people shouldn’t happen and they were determined to put together guidance on how to stop that happening, but worker safety, fire prevention, evacuation and hostile actions were soon on the agenda. This year’s conference was notable in its holistic approach
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