Safety and Security challenges for protecting stadia and sport venues
Andrew Cooke – Director Security Operations
The ‘risk is real’ for major sporting events…and therefore safety and security must be integrated and considered at the earliest stages of stadia design. A typical risk assessment considers threats, vulnerabilities and the impact of the incidents on the event itself. However, games-time threats are difficult, if not impossible, to predict at the beginning of the design phase, which could be many years before the actual event, takes places.
