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Live Crowd Decisions Under Pressure

Change the crowd decision when the information is enough, and withdraw the old one.

Tactical

Title 9.2 in Crowd Safety and Movement

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

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For the person making the live crowd decision on the day. You hold or release locations, and decide when entry stops or the performance waits.

What you will be able to do

  • Record the crowd decision in force.
  • Name the information that is enough to change it.
  • Choose one action, never two that cannot both run.
  • Hold or release a named location.
  • Delay last admission or the performance without inventing a density.

What the chapters cover

  • The decision now in force
  • Holding or releasing a location
  • Stop entry, delay last admission, delay the performance
  • Withdrawing the old decision
  • When production will not accept the crowd decision
  • The written crowd 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 Crowd Safety and Movement

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