shane Faulkingham
May 7, 2012 Article
Human Resources Management
How to manage crowds at sporting events
Brittany Marie Swanson Campus saft http://www.campussafetymagazine.com/Channel/University-Security/Articles/2012/02/Controlling-Crowds-at-College-Sporting-Events/Page/2.aspx During this article the author speeks about the importance of safty at college sporting events. They explain how you can run into problems such as people storming the field at the end of a game, riots, drinking, and terrorist threats. The reason this is so important is because without the correct training and preperation you cant combat this issue. Prevention is key, inorder to do this you have to see what methods have worked in the past and which ones didnt. You can do this by calling other schools, and even other proffetional level teams to try and ask them for advise. Also in prevention you need to get people involved such as law inforcement the teachers the students, and other community figures to spread the word about respectful behavior during a game. The author says that one of the huge things when it comes to saftey is alcohol. People arnet themselves when they are drunk and they tend to do stupid things. In order to prevent this problem you can refuse to sell alcoholic beverages in the facilty, search people as they come in to make sure they do not posses anything dangerous or alchol and drug related, make sure that law enforcement is controling the tailgating scene, and make sure people arnt walking in drunk. Also their was a texting method that the author talked about. The method they use is called fan assist. Basically what this is a system where fans can text a number with any complaints or warnings that the college should be worried about. Fans can get this number very easily because there are contant reminders announced, the number is on the ticket, and it is advertised