Background
Summer Social returned to Richmond Athletic Ground and The Old Deer Park in June 2023, for a day of competition, music and fun at London’s leading fitness and lifestyle festival.
OPS helped the client throughout the advancing, build and live stages of – auditing all suppliers and contractors, before providing onsite Health & Safety to support our sister agency and the production team, The Fair.
Challenges
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The main egress route for the festival takes attendees through an event car park, so it is always a challenge ensuring vehicles do not move throughout egress to ensure the safety of those on foot.
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This was further complicated this year by a national train strike resulting in far more attendees leaving by private car, taxi or Uber.
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Egress would need to be closely managed by the Safety Advisor alongside the security team both within the festival grounds and in the roads immediately outside.
Delivery
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Meetings were held with Security and plans put in place to set up a temporary PUDO on roads outside that led to a local golf club and leisure centre but which would be relatively quiet at the time of egress.
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In addition, event car parks were patrolled by Security to prevent vehicle movement and all entrances/exits were protected by appropriate barrier and security deployed to prevent vehicle access.
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This was fully managed and overseen by the Safety Officer and Security Manager throughout peak egress.
Results
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A successful, safe and incident free egress with minimal disruption to local traffic.
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This capped a hugely successful day of festival sport and music with very positive feedback from the client and attendees.
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We’re looking forward to working with the team in 2024.
