Building a Delivery System Across a Season

For the named organiser who designs delivery across a season and accepts, in writing, the risk that remains. It scales from two staff in one hall to a promoter across several sites.

What you will be able to do

• Name each law that applies at every event in the season, the nation it covers and whether it is in force.
• List the licences, qualifications and appointments the organisation still needs from other bodies.
• Explain, with evidence, how a method that worked at one event fails when the staff, the site or the promoter change.
• Name who holds each duty at every event, and record any role where nobody has been appointed.
• Write a contractor competence specification: the competence, the evidence you accept, who checks it and when.

What the chapters cover

• Law, guidance and method across a programme of events
• Who holds which duty at every event in the season
• Specifying contractor competence in writing
• Recording Safety Advisory Group advice as advice
• Accepting the residual risk of the delivery system
• Using an English system in Scotland, Northern Ireland or on tour

Thirteen chapters run from who holds the duty to the signed residual-risk statement, with thirteen quick-reference cards you may copy for use at your own event. Worked examples are composite illustrations, not accounts of real events.

Strategic titles are for the named organiser who designs the system across an event or a season and signs the risk that remains. OTAS Live publishes 30 handbooks across ten areas of event work, each at Operational, Tactical and Strategic level.

UK law, nation by nation

Law as checked in September 2026, with England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland named separately.