People gather in many places, including conferences and exhibitions, festivals, shopping areas, concerts, sporting events, transportation hubs, and many more. When people gather in groups, it instantly raises the risks of injuries, crime, anti-social behavior, terrorism, and other incidents which could occur through panic, distress, or concern. Many varied and complex incidents exist when crowds panic, such as crushing, stampeding, surging, swaying, clogging, etc. and knowing how to recognize, deal with and manage these incidents is of paramount importance when implementing crowd safety strategies.
Any individual engaging in the planning of crowd safety in public assembly needs to understand the make-up of crowds and how best to respond to a variety of situations. This 5-day course is ideal for any professional within security, safety, customer service, policing, or management role who is organizing or working at events where large groups of people will gather.
This course enables participants to recognize the dynamics of a crowd, to understand the behavior of people alone versus in groups, and to allow those involved with crowd management to control the situation professionally while mitigating the risk to people through crowd safety
Understand the principles of planning and preparing for events, including crowd management and control
Explain, understand and apply safety policies, procedures, and legal requirements for events
Utilize Risk, Threat, and Vulnerability assessments
Identify the different types of physical security equipment needed for crowd management
Understand the psychology of crowd science
This course is ideal for professionals within security, safety, customer service, policing, or management role; and for anyone engaged in event planning or responsible for crowd safety who may need to understand the make-up of crowds and how best to deal with any situation which may occur due to crowded environments or public assemblies
Roles and responsibilities of event staff
Types of events and gatherings
Planning and preparing for dealing with events
Physical Security Measures
Access and Egress control
Legal requirements
Venue safety policy and procedure
Venue control rooms
Health and safety procedure (safety signage, etc.)
Response, safety, venue and event teams
Search procedures
Specific and generic threats to people and property
Types of behavior
The 3 D’s principle for crowd safety
Small, medium and large pedestrian areas
Gas Kinetic model of pedestrian flows
Magnetic force model
Pooling model
Shockwave theory
Principles of Queue management
Intersecting flows
Bottlenecks and obstructions
Lane switching
Emergency lane formation
Social force model
Attractive interactions (Pipe Piper of Hamlin syndrome)
Because supervisory levels are the link between the executive and senior management levels, achieving the organization's objectives, increasing productivity and overall performance of the organization, affects the effectiveness and efficiency of supervisors' performance.
And because of the skills of supervisors in any organization in need of continuous development, and to acquire advanced tools and methods that reflect on the deepening of these skills and activate their role in motivating individuals working, and push them to commit to the goals of the organization.
You need this conference to learn about supervisory skills and advanced methods, to be able to play an effective and supervisory role in your organization.
Managing an office has become an increasingly sophisticated and complex job. The increased demand for speed and accuracy, knowledge of new technology, and an increasingly diverse workforce bring challenges and also opportunities for growth. This dynamic and in-depth course explores some of the more advanced skills which can help an office manager to work more confidently, creatively, and effectively.
As a supervisor, the success of your organization rests in your hands. This course provides you with the opportunity to develop highly effective and essential supervisory skills that will strengthen teamwork and organizational success. Also, this course will help you manage everyday operations with greater ease. Furthermore, it will help you leverage both your managerial and people skills to meet your new challenges as the 21st-century supervisor.
This course is designed for participants to introduce to key issues and themes in international development.
Participants will explore and engage in academic debates and discussions around a set of key factors that shape, influence, and constrain the development and prosperity of nations.
The course will explore a number of key themes in international development, including how questions of gender and generation shape the impact of poverty; how processes of globalization, migration, and violent conflict impact development; and how development and the environment are linked.
It also considers what exactly we mean by poverty, and how different ways of understanding poverty feed into different approaches to tackling it.
It will also consider development institutions: what are the key institutions in the architecture of international development? How do they differ, and what are the challenges and opportunities they present? Through this module, participants will gain a solid background in the various factors which shape current approaches to and debates on international development.
By introducing participants to a range of problems in economic development, we will look to analyze how economic theory and models can explain the lack of development in some nations. We will apply such theory to real-world economies to understand the nature of the problems they face and how effective policies can be in tackling the problems.
A five-day course on the practical aspects of piping and pipeline design, integrity, maintenance, and repair. The participants will obtain an in-depth understanding of the ASME B31 code rules and API standards, their technical basis, and practical application to field conditions.
Corporate/Public governance and risk management are critical There is increasing attention being paid to corporate governance and risk management in business schools and among legislators.