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After-Action Review and the Event File

An event file that would stand in front of a coroner.

Strategic

Title 10.3 in Event Records and Review

A Strategic Handbook in Event Records and Review. An OTAS Live handbook by Kris Dailly.

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For the named organiser who specifies the after-action review and the event file, and accepts in writing the risk that remains.

What you will be able to do

  • Name who still holds the duties in sections 2 and 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 for the file.
  • Specify a review that ends with an owner and a date for each action.
  • Specify an event file a later reader can open and follow.
  • Record Safety Advisory Group advice as advice.
  • Sign the risk that remains in the event file, dated and with its sources.

What the chapters cover

  • Who holds the duty for the file
  • Specifying the after-action review
  • Specifying the event file
  • Retention, access and privilege
  • What a Safety Advisory Group, licensing officer or coroner should find
  • The design paper and the residual-risk statement

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.

Three levels in Event Records and Review

Each area of event work is covered at Operational, Tactical and Strategic level, so the series follows the job from the post on the ground to the decisions around it.

All 30 handbooks