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Event Management Manpreet Kaur, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 11: Operations, Logistics, Safety and
Security Management

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
11.1 Event Management: Operations and Logistics

11.1.1 How it is done?
11.2 Safety and Security Related to Events
11.2.1 Key Issues

11.2.2 Safety Checklist
11.2.3 Strategies and Operations On-site
11.2.4 Checklist for all Participants
11.2.5 Checklist for Exhibitors
11.3 Incident Reporting

11.4 Essential Features of a State of the Art Event Management Systems
11.5 Environmental Health and Safety Issues
11.6 Summary

11.7 Keywords
11.8 Review Questions
11.9 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you should be able to:

Explain the term operation in events
Define the term logistic
Identify the need of safety in event management

Explain the significance of security management
Introduction

Many events are staged on sites where everything has been set up over a 24-hour period, with all
the elements carefully synchronized. In contrast, many other events require years of planning;
large convention bids are often won five years before the event is held.

11.1 Event Management: Operations and Logistics

Operations management is an area of management concerned with overseeing, designing,
controlling the process of production and redesigning business operations in the production of

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