Leisure Event Employees Need Health and Safety Training
There is a call for better health and safety training relating to leisure event employees. Workers at public events such as concerts often are docents hired not for experience, but because they are available. Depending on where you live, you may have young individuals barely out of high school working as stewards. In other places, it may be retirees looking for a little extra cash.
Yet, there is a call for better health and safety training courses for anyone who is working in this sector. It is not about age, but about what the person can physically do to keep event attendees safe if something should occur. There are unnecessary safety issues that occur at events each year in the UK. This is why the HSE and IOSH are asking for better safety standards.
A recent survey asked sports and music fans whether they felt safe when attending a concert or sporting event. The answer was that at least one third felt unsafe because of overcrowding, drugs, and alcohol abuse. Crowd rowdiness and fighting were also on the list of why some felt they were not safe. The majority of attendees did say the police and security guards along with the stewards made them feel safer. The point made by the IOSH is that every individual that handles these mass crowd situations needs to have the proper safety and health training to deal with any type of event that may occur.
