Kilo Delta

Medical and Welfare Operations on the Day

An operation several posts can run, with the medical route kept open.

Tactical

Title 5.2 in Medical, Welfare and Safeguarding

A Tactical Handbook for Live Events: Medical, Welfare and Safeguarding. An OTAS Live handbook by Kris Dailly.

Coming soon

This title is not on sale yet. When it is published, it will be listed here with a link to buy it.

For the person running medical and welfare operations on the day. You write an operation several posts can run and record the cover that remains.

What you will be able to do

  • Record the medical and welfare operation in force, post by post, without inventing a staff ratio.
  • Compare what the provider arrived with against what your organisation specified.
  • Decide whether new information is enough to change the operation, and record who first said it would not hold.
  • Record who leaves a post, who arrives and the time the move takes effect.
  • Keep the medical route open, or record the part of it people cannot walk.

What the chapters cover

  • Confirming the operation now in force
  • Setting the provider's plan against what this event needs
  • Sending a team and standing a post down
  • Recording the cover that remains after an ambulance leaves
  • Running the lost-child and vulnerable-adult process
  • Writing the operation instruction

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 Medical, Welfare and Safeguarding

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