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9. Olivia Bellas - the power of facilitation to create safety, relationship building, designing meetings differently, respect and empowering social impact.
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Olivia Bellas, a facilitator who empowers people to make sense of complex work, speaks with Íse about the importance of creating an environment with purpose to get the most out of meetings and gatherings. We explore the power of facilitation to create safety, empower people and make big change. Support the show: If you enjoyed this episode and want…
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8. Becca Wilusz - college sport events in the USA, applying an engineering PhD to plan crowd safety, working with students to manage safety and behaviour, women in the industry
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In this episode I get to chat to Becca Wilusz, Assistant Director of Athletics / Game Operations & Championships at Duke University in North Carolina. Becca discusses her unusual career path into crowd safety at events, how she designs event plans, applies her background in biomedical engineering to planning, risk and data analysis and how her team…
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7. Solo - Improving the industry, decision making, incompetence, awareness, rejection, self trust
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This is my first Safety Sistas Solo episode and is an honest share about my intention on improving the industry, what I truly value, the systems that help me, understanding decision making, feeling incompetent, developing awareness, behaviour in the event control room, fear of rejection, being too hard on ourselves, and what happens when we trust o…
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6. Emma Parkinson - practical academic, power of volunteers, respecting staff, C3 (Command, Control/Coordinate, Communications), learning from High Reliability Organisations to improve crowd safety.
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I meet with Emma Parkinson, who leads the MSc Crowded Places and Public Safety Management at Coventry University, works as a crowd safety manager on some of the world’s biggest events as well as studying a Professional Doctorate into learning from High Reliability Organisations such as nuclear, aviation and space. We discuss our role behind the cur…
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5. Becky Stevens - Event Control, Safety Advisory Groups, managing an emergency evacuation, insights into the Fatboy Slim concert on Brighton Beach in 2002
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In this episode, I catch up with Becky Stevens, director of Hybred Events, on site at Lumiere Durham 2023, a biennial light art festival in the north of England. Becky shares insight into how we approach event control, discusses the importance of training for safety advisory groups and debunks the narrative of us being the “safety police”. She shar…
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4. Morten Therkildsen - Roskilde Festival, IBIT 2023, evolution of formal education, Safety and Security, Zone Ex, politics, high reliability organisation, definition of a Crowd Manager
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Welcome to my first in person podcast episode, where I sit down with Morten Therkildsen, Director of Safety at Roskilde Festival in Denmark. We caught up at the IBIT 2023 Conference in Cologne, where we were both speaking. I represented the Global Crowd Management Alliance speaking about Zone Ex, and Morten spoke about the meaning of, and how we us…
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3. Anne Marie Chebib and KT Sonnen - The BBC report on malpractice in security training, regulation, expectations on security and stewarding, the wider picture, and evolution of our industry.
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After the release of BBC’s File on 4 undercover investigation, on the 3 October 2023, into “sham training” in the security industry, Íse sits down with Ann Marie Chebib, Managing Director of Select Security and Secretary of UK Crowd Management Association and Global Crowd Management Alliance and KT Sonnen (from our first episode), COO of Invictus P…
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2. Janthea Bridgen - child care at events, regulatory compliance, lost child procedures, risk assessing events for child care, how safeguarding can be improved.
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Janthea Bridgen is CEO of Nipperbout, providing child care and children’s activities for the events industry. We talk about how she got to where she is today, what it takes to provide best practice and what challenges she faces in the industry. She shares fascinating insights in how she risk assesses events, debunks a theory that sometimes divides …
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1. KT Sonnen - experience as events security, studying a PhD, training security, working the pit, crowd dynamics, staff welfare, post-pandemic behaviour, improving the industry
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Welcome to our first episode of Safety Sistas! The podcast about the people who keep you safe. I interview people who fascinate me with their experience, wisdom and knowledge in the world of safety and I want to celebrate the work they do behind the scenes to keep us all safe at events (and beyond).We kick things off with a bang with the wise and h…
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A brief summary of this episodeBy Íse Murphy
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