Capacity, Evidence and Residual Crowd Risk

For the named organiser who holds the duty for capacity, specifies the evidence and accepts in writing the crowd 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 capacity evidence a licensing authority can read.
• Specify the two live crowd roles and how each is covered.
• Cite the Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds (the Green Guide) only where the site is a sports ground.
• Sign the crowd risk that remains, dated and with its sources.

What the chapters cover

• Who holds the duty for capacity
• Specifying capacity evidence
• Sources that apply, and sources that do not
• Specifying the two live crowd roles
• What cannot be left to a contractor
• The design 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.