Practical guides on crowd safety, Martyn's Law, festival stewarding and event risk — written for the people who actually run events.
A comparative technical analysis of the 2022 Melilla border crush and the July 2026 Ceuta-Melilla mass surge. Explains how spatial bottlenecks, unmetered arrivals, force escalation, and missing pressure-relief protocols led to mass casualties.
On 24 June 2022, at least 23 to 37+ people died in a crowd crush at the Melilla border crossing between Morocco and Spain. Here is an architectural and fluid-dynamic analysis of how crowd pressure, physical bottlenecks, and enclosed perimeters create fatal compressive asphyxia.
One person running caused 19 injuries in South Carolina. A historic heatwave forced the world's largest hardstyle festival to cancel mid-event. Two very different incidents — the same underlying lesson.
The SIA's Section 12 guidance consultation closed in July 2026. Final guidance is due autumn 2026. Enforcement starts spring 2027. Here's what has changed and what venues need to do now.
30,000 people, a post-industrial park, six stages and July heat. Kappa FuturFestival at Parco Dora is one of Europe's most complex crowd management environments. Here's what organisers can learn from it.
30.000 persone, un'area industriale dismessa, sei palchi e il caldo di luglio. Kappa FuturFestival è uno degli ambienti di crowd management più complessi d'Europa. Ecco cosa insegna a chi organizza eventi in Italia.
The 13th edition of Kappa at Parco Dora just ended. 125,000 attendees, six stages, extreme heat and a detailed police security report. Here's what event organisers can take from it.
La 13ª edizione di Kappa al Parco Dora si è conclusa il 5 luglio. 125.000 presenze, sei palchi, caldo record e un dettagliato rapporto di sicurezza della polizia. Cosa insegna agli organizzatori di eventi.
Infrared sensors, thermal imaging, LiDAR, AI video analytics, drones — the tech vendors are selling you is real, but most events don't need most of it. Here's what each does, what it costs, and when it's actually worth it.
Steel barricades, belt stanchions, high-visibility fencing, and where to actually put your stewards — a practical guide to the physical equipment and personnel placement that does the real work of crowd control.
On 30 June 2026, a FIFA fan fest in Monterrey turned deadly in a crush at the gates. Two days later, three people suffocated when a million fans celebrated Mexico's win in the streets of Mexico City. Two very different settings, the same preventable failure.
Crowd crush kills more people at events than fire, terrorism or medical emergencies combined. Here's what actually happens inside a crush, the density numbers that matter, and how to calculate a safe capacity for your venue.
Martyn's Law is now in force. Here's what it requires, who it applies to, and the simplest way to get your staff ready before the 2027 enforcement deadline.
Most crowd safety incidents are preventable. The difference between venues that have problems and venues that don't usually comes down to one thing: whether the staff on the ground knew what to look for.