H&S Case Study

Case study of the crowd collapse at Boardmasters festival on the 9th of august 2024.

(ITV News, 2024)

When planning events, you need to understand how many people are going to attend and if you can fit them all into the communal areas of the festival. Having enough space in every area of the event is critical because you can never know for definite how many people will be in a specific area at a time, so you have to prepare to have enough space for two way foot traffic and also have a bit of space for people with disabilities and people having health issues can stop for a little bit while everyone else is walking around.

ITV News (2024) stated ‘Seven festival-goers required hospital treatment following a crowd collapse at Boardmasters music festival.’

BBC news (2024) interviewed an attendee of the festival who stated ‘ “This is an isolated incident and the festival continues.” ‘

This goes to show that having a mass amount of people in a confined space can cause havoc