Rock Festival Safety Table of contents

OTHER FOCUS POINTS................................................................................................................. 25
RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE WORKING GROUP SET UP BY THE DANISH GOVERNMENT TO
STUDY THE SAFETY ASPECTS OF MUSIC FESTIVALS................................................. 27
INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................... 27
RISK EVALUATION.................................................................................................................. 28
GUIDELINES ON EVALUATING RISKS AND SAFETY................................................................... 28
OVERALL COORDINATION OF RESPONSIBILITY OF ALL INVOLVED PUBLIC AGENCIES.............. 29
ESTABLISHING AN INTERNAL UNIT WITHIN THE POLICE WITH SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE OF
CROWD MANAGEMENT............................................................................................................ 39
PREREQUISITES FOR RISK EVALUATIONS CONDUCTED BY PROMOTERS ................................... 30
CONTROL OF PROMOTER’S RISK EVALUATION AND SAFETY PROVISIONS ................................ 30
FIRE SAFETY AND CAMPING.................................................................................................... 30
SOURCES 32
Introduction
THE ROSKILDE ACCIDENT (BASED ON THE PRELIMINARY REPORT ISSUED BY THE ROSKILDE POLICE
DEPARTMENT, 14 JULY 2000)
On Friday 30 June 2000, at about 23:30, a crowd of approximately 50,000 had assembled in front of the Orange Stage
at Roskilde Festival. The rock group on stage, Pearl Jam, had started its concert shortly after 22:30. The night was rainy,
cold and windy. The concert commenced in normal fashion. The crowd was extremely tightly packed in front of the
stage and shortly after the concert commenced stewards at the front barrier were kept busy removing fans from the area
in front of the stage. Some members of the crowd pushed forward, while others crowd-surfed towards the front barrier.
This situation was not
unusual.
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