Health & Safety: Bournemouth 7’s

Background

Bournemouth 7’s has been running festivals for sports people and music lovers since 2008. It has grown to become the world’s largest sport and music festival attracting over 30000 people to the South Coast over a fun packed three days.

Supporting and working closely alongside the small, talented and passionate team delivering the festival, We Are OPS provided Safety Advisors throughout the live event and for the final stages of the build.

Challenges

• Ensuring we were able to work effectively with the clients event management and production teams for a safe and successful delivery of the event.

• Three separate security companies were engaged for the festival each with specific areas of responsibility. This would provide a stronger security presence for the festival. An independent security manager was engaged to oversee the security operations and to liaise between the companies.

• Working on a large site, the event included multiple suppliers, partners and food vendors. The safety advisors used their knowledge and experience to support and achieve a safe build and obtain all necessary information to ensure all sign offs to allow for the festival to open on schedule.

• Working closely with security teams, bus companies and taxi operators to achieve a smooth and successful egress on each live day.

• Working alongside and supporting the Event Management and Production teams, we strived to ensure a safe site during the build and obtained all appropriate sign offs prior to opening. During live, we fed information and issues into Event Control and chaired ELT’s.

• Egress was vastly improved with the addition of additional bus routes which also added sustainability benefits.

Delivery

• On Site Safety

• Delivery of a Table Top Exercise

Results

• A hugely successful event with positive feedback from the client for our contribution.

• Effective communication and liaison between all parties on site throughout both build and live phases.

• Egress was vastly improved with the additional bus routes which also added sustainability benefits.