The University of East Anglia hosted its 2025 graduation ceremonies over five days, with three sessions each day welcoming more than 1,000 graduates and guests per session. The ceremonies were produced by Hickman & Grange, who asked We are OPS to deliver event health and safety services throughout.
OPS already had a strong relationship with UEA, having supported previous student events such as Welcome Week. For this project, we were brought in to oversee health and safety across the build, live event and break. Our team worked closely with Hickman & Grange, UEA staff and suppliers in the months leading up to the ceremonies to make sure everything was in place.
The services we provided included client liaison, auditing supplier documentation, attending planning meetings and briefings, setting up a new safety induction, and acting as on-site safety advisors throughout. This was a standalone OPS project, rather than one delivered in partnership with Placemaking or The Fair.
“From the moment we engaged with OPS, we knew they were the right fit for our event. In the beginning, they carried out a full audit of what we had done before providing valuable feedback and insight, both complimentary and constructive. From this we were able to move forward with OPS, who produced excellent documentation for our event giving us full confidence in all aspects of Health and Safety during the build, live and de-rig phases of our event. Rob and Rami were an absolute pleasure to have on site, always acting with the utmost professionalism and were a great fit for our team. Working with OPS we made significant improvements to our Health and Safety documentation and procedures, and hope to continue working with OPS for our future events.”
