Event Healthcare, Safeguarding and the Organiser's Duty

For the named organiser who designs the healthcare and safeguarding system, names the designated person and the reporting route, and accepts the risk that remains.

What you will be able to do

• Name the person who holds the section 3 duty under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, not a group title.
• Record what the medical provider is contracted to do and not do, and record anything missing.
• Identify a system that existed on paper and was not used, without retelling the incident.
• Turn the Medical Needs Assessment into a plan Operational and Tactical staff can run.
• Name the designated person and the reporting route for each nation the event runs in.

What the chapters cover

• Who still holds the organiser's duty
• Writing a Medical Needs Assessment staff can run
• Safeguarding by nation
• Skill mix, equipment, and when the event does not open
• CQC registration and what this organisation will not claim
• The system 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 events you organise. 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.