Logistics Activities
Safety Risk Assessment And Management For Events
When organizing an event, especially with a large number of expected attendants, safety risk management is important to consider.Safety risk management is foresight and preparation for things that could possibly go wrong or incidents that may arise throughout the course of the event.Medical services available should be optimum for the number of patrons, venue characteristics, Logistics, and type of event.Liaison with a broad range of people and services is essential and this preparation can take months.These are: government and local authorities, event organisers, event promoters, governing bodies/statutory authorities, circuit owners/management, event officials, ambulance services, police, fire brigade, local public and private hospitals, specialist hospitals (neurosurgical, spinal, burns), medical evacuation helicopter services, and insurers.
In order to optimise safety risk management, make certain that the medical professionals you will work with are skilled at pre-hospital care, well versed in event organization, and that the equipment utilised has been road tested and approved. As opposed to the hospital setting, pre-hospital care is much more specialised and delicate as there are a lot of variable factors to consider and a different set of pressures involved.When someone has a heart attack, Advanced Life Support must be made available within four to six minutes in order to save a life however ambulances take about twelve to twenty minutes to arrive on the scene.Trauma cases are also time sensitive and the injured person must be treated ASAP without the inevitable delays involved in taking him/her to a hospital.
Organisers tend to think twice or hesitate in hiring professional safety risk management teams because this service can be rather pricey.They then look to Volunteer First Aid services who offer only Basic Life Support (BLS) however this may be inadequate for saving a single life and unable to deal with the number of complex medical problems associated with the larger crowds of people expected at major events and venues.Ultimately, any perceived additional cost is more than worthwhile in hindsight.
Unintended Environmental Impacts of Nighttime Freight Logistics Activities
