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Watching, Listening, Communicating and Event Control Logging

Hold, pass or escalate. Then write the line.

Operational

Title 8.1 in Event Control and Command

An Operational Handbook in Event Control and Command. An OTAS Live handbook by Kris Dailly.

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For the person who watches, listens, communicates and logs at an Event Control desk.

What you will be able to do

  • Name your desk and the person you report to.
  • Write what you can see and what you cannot, what you heard and what you missed.
  • Hold, pass or escalate each piece of incoming information.
  • Use radio words that name the place, what is happening, what is asked and who needs to hear it.
  • Write the Event Control line, and hand over when you are relieved.

What the chapters cover

  • What this desk can see and hear
  • Handling incoming information
  • The words to use on the radio
  • Hold, pass or escalate
  • Writing the Event Control line
  • Handover when you are relieved

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.

Operational titles are for the person doing the job at one post, door, desk or location 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 Event Control and Command

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