2021 Events: Readiness and Control in an ever-changing event landscape
The events industry has taken one of the hardest hits in the past 18months, with the height of COVID restrictions inviting few alternatives to the allure of a live event, quite simply the options were: Cancel, Postpone or Go Virtual. For many high-profile events, the latter was not an option due to multi-city locations, high […]
The Protect Duty – Breaking Down The Jargon
In the wake of recurring terrorist attacks across the UK, including the Manchester Arena Bombing and both the 2017 & 2019 London Bridge Attacks, The Protect Duty consultation has been seeking views on how legislation could be used to enhance the protection of public spaces. Targeted primarily at private organisations (250+ employees), as well as […]
Partner Update: Coronavirus Reopening Compliance
Alan Tungate, Logical Safety Solutions and Sophie Davenport, SFE Services join Rob Walley, Controlled Events as expert guests again this month, sharing new information to consider as COVID restrictions ease and reopening phases continue to progress. All are committed to implementing COVID-secure arrangements within their own organisations, as well as advising clients. Logical Safety Solutions provide competent, practical health and safety solutions, primarily […]
Reviewing Resilience To Prepare For Crisis Management
Crises are a fact of both life and human history. From unexpected personal and organisational events to wide-scale societal and environmental issues, crises come in many different shapes and sizes. The key purpose of crisis management is to mitigate possible risks and minimise collateral damage as these events unfold. This often requires specialist support and […]
Coronavirus: Planning to reopen? Read this first
Alan Tungate, Logical Safety Solutions and Sophie Davenport, SFE Services join Rob Walley, Controlled Events as expert guests this month. All are Directors and Co-Owners of their businesses and are each implementing COVID-secure arrangements themselves as well as advising clients. Logical Safety Solutions provide competent, practical health and safety solutions, primarily for the events, TV & […]
Remote Exercising in 2021
Just about a year ago, before COVID lockdowns were even something we could comprehend, our friends at Conducttr were predicting the end of PowerPoint (or at least highlighting the opportunities from exercising in a different way) and more recently in December highlighted in a Business Continuity Institute webinar how remote Exercises can be delivered. The technology is certainly already in place but the client culture like many organisations was for ‘bums on seats’ at an Exercise. One positive outcome from COVID is that already in 2021 we are seeing a trend toward clients being very accepting of the new normal
Risk management
Dr Robert Macfarlane once described (during crisis management training) a theory from Reason (1997) called the swiss cheese model, in which an organisation’s defences against failure are a series of barriers or slices of the cheese. The holes in the cheese slices represent individual weaknesses in individual parts of the system which are protected as […]
Coronavirus: The singular threat to businesses in 2020… or is it?
You would think that 2020 had been the year for resilience, but I’m not so sure. The 2017 National Risk Register stated that; “there is a high probability of a flu pandemic occurring” with “up to 50% of the UK experiencing symptoms, leading to between 20,000 and 750,000 fatalities and high levels of absence from […]
COVID-19 reopening
Are you planning your Re-opening? Whether your business is part of an industry reliant on staff being on-site or one simply looking to reunite their teams to bring back a sense of normality, getting your premises COVID secure and compliant can be an onerous task for those unfamiliar with the process. At the heart of […]
COVID-19 Pandemic Response – Resilience tips and resources #4
Are you strengthening your supply chain and organisational resilience? Fewer than 50% of businesses had a plan in place that sufficiently enabled them to respond to supply chain issues encountered during COVID-19 so far. A further 3.5% of businesses had no Continuity Plan in place at all during COVID-19, and we are advising people to […]
COVID-19 Pandemic Response – Resilience tips and resources #3
Are you positively mapping the way forward yet? The traditional Easter feeling of positivity and optimism for spring has been hard to maintain this year. However the individuals and businesses that are coming out strongly are focussing on planning and mapping out various paths out of this crisis. As we reflect as a business our […]
COVID-19 Pandemic Response – Resilience tips and resources #2
Can your business recover from a Pandemic? If the recent COVID-19 global outbreak has your organisation wondering if your business continuity plans are enough to sustain your business, you’re not alone – we’ve been answering the same question for our own operations and for a range of medium and large enterprises. As employee absences increase, […]
COVID-19 Pandemic Response – Resilience tips and resources #1
Are we all behind the planning curve? Behind the scaremongering and media hype there is a clear potential for the current COVID-19 Outbreak to have an increasingly disruptive impact on businesses, events and society at large over the coming months. Those affected by the virus may be absent for longer than a traditional ‘flu type […]
Sydney and London launch of ground breaking ECR Manager platform
Today in Sydney, Controlled Events formally launched Event Control Room (ECR) Manager 2.0 across live event and client projects in Sydney, Australia and the United Kingdom. With deployments accelerating from there, encompassing existing UK projects from March and the USA from April the new platform will benefit event organisers and incident management clients with improved […]
