Stream
Event Control & External Coordination
Keeping an accurate control picture and coordinating the outside of the event.
How to read this page
A stream is an area of work. A level is the depth of responsibility OTAS takes on. A service is what you commission. A role is the person OTAS provides to carry it out.
This stream includes Event Control and what we used to call external operations and community liaison.
Operational
Control Support, Crowd Monitoring & External Delivery
Doing the control support and outside work so Event Control has an accurate picture. That covers logging, radio checks and handovers in Event Control, and crowd monitoring on the ground. It also covers external team members at transport points, walking routes, pinch points and cordons, and the resident and business line.
Who OTAS provides
Loggists, radio operators, crowd monitoring posts, external team members and line operators.
Where it ends
These posts observe, record and report into Event Control. They are not licensed security roles.
Tactical
Event Control & External Coordination
Holding and managing the live control picture and the outside of the event on the day. That covers chairing your event's own Event Control and its own tactical coordination meeting, setting control priorities, and running external coordination on the day.
Who OTAS provides
An Event Control Manager, with an External Coordination Manager when the outside of the event is in scope.
Where it ends
OTAS chairs your event's own control and coordination meetings when commissioned. OTAS does not chair a multi-agency tactical group and does not take an emergency-service command role.
Strategic
Control & Coordination Planning
Designing the control and coordination system before the event. That covers the Event Control specification, with the room, radio plan, call signs, log format and staffing model. It also covers the external coordination plan and exercise support.
Who OTAS provides
An Event Control Manager on planning days, an External Coordination Manager, or a named planning lead.
Where it ends
OTAS prepares you to work with the Safety Advisory Group and the emergency services. Authority stays with each statutory body.
Works with
Event Delivery and Event Safety & Risk, under one written plan.
Event Delivery
Building, running and handing back the event site to an agreed plan.
See this serviceDelivery work supports the live control picture. OTAS style image, generated from real photography. Not a record of a specific event.
Event Safety & Risk
Finding and controlling hazards, managing safety on the day, and writing the safety basis before it.
See this serviceSafety work supports the live control picture. OTAS style image, generated from real photography. Not a record of a specific event.
Next step
Request a scope
Commission one service, the whole stream, or several streams connected under Integrated Event Management and Control. Each commission is quoted per job from the OTAS rate card.