Command Arrangements and Emergency Services Protocols

For the named organiser who designs the command arrangements and emergency services protocols, and accepts in writing the risk that remains.

What you will be able to do

• Name the person who still holds the duties in sections 2 and 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
• Write command arrangements that the Event Control desk and the people sharing its picture can run.
• Name who meets the emergency services.
• Specify Event Control as a system.
• Write protocols that do not take command from the emergency services.

What the chapters cover

• Who holds the organiser's command duty
• Specifying Event Control as a system
• Emergency services protocols this organisation will run
• What cannot be left to a contractor or to JESIP
• What a Safety Advisory Group, licensing officer or coroner should find
• The arrangement 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.