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Manpreet Kaur, Lovely Professional University Unit 12: Crowd Management and Evacuation

Unit 12: Crowd Management and Evacuation Notes

CONTENTS

Objectives
Introduction
12.1 Crowd Management
12.2 Crowd in Panic
12.2.1 Causes of Panic

12.2.2 Environmental Impact
12.2.3 Problematic Differences
12.3 Evacuation

12.3.1 Reasons for Evacuation
12.3.2 Evacuation Techniques
12.3.3 Evacuation Team
12.4 Emergency Evacuation
12.4.1 Planning

12.4.2 Evacuation Sequence
12.5 Summary
12.6 Keywords

12.7 Review Questions
12.8 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you should be able to:
Know the meaning of crowd
Discuss the need to know crowd management
Identify the various supporting constraint of crowd management
Explain the meaning of evacuation
Describe the process of evacuation

Introduction

Crowd management must take into account all the elements of an event especially the type of
event, characteristics of the facility, size and demeanor of the crowd, methods of entrance,
communications, crowd control, and queueing.

Example: Circus, sporting, theatrical, concert, rally, parade, etc.

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