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Live Safety Decisions During the Event

Doors are open and something has changed. Decide, and write it down.

Tactical

Title 2.2 in Safety Duties and Management

A Tactical Handbook for Live Events: Safety Duties and Management. An OTAS Live handbook by Kris Dailly.

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For the person making the live safety decision once the event is running. You write the next step in a form Event Control, production and the contractor can all run.

What you will be able to do

  • Name the law behind a live safety decision, the nation where it applies and whether it is in force.
  • Check which certificates and competences other staff hold on site today, and record any gap.
  • Set two competing safety decisions side by side and record which runs, which waits and who holds each.
  • Write one method that Event Control, production and the contractor can each carry out.
  • Brief each party in matching words, and spot when three briefings have become three decisions.

What the chapters cover

  • The legal duty that still applies while the event is running
  • Setting competing safety decisions side by side
  • One method Event Control, production and the contractor can run
  • Testing whether a control is reasonably practicable
  • When the promoter or production manager will not accept the decision
  • Writing up the live safety decision

Thirteen chapters follow the job in order, with thirteen quick-reference cards you may copy for use at your own event. Worked examples are composite illustrations, not accounts of real events.

Tactical titles are for the person coordinating several posts or departments once the plan has to change on the day. 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 Safety Duties and Management

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