Relevant Risk provides an in-house consultation process.
Your event personnel need to know the ins and outs of legislation because it has to be applied to their every day jobs. They have to understand what every one of your in-house policies mean because they need to apply them. They need to know what has been agreed through your procurement department with your suppliers.
They should be applying your own policies and legislation requirements to every event they plan.
Five questions you can ask your team.
Q1. Do you know who is responsible for health & safety at each of the events you plan?
Q2. Do you know what our company policy on working time regulations is?
Q3. Do you check whether PPL or PRS licence fees have been paid?
Q4. Do you agree how insurance cover is applied with suppliers at each event?
Q5. Do you have all the legislation knowledge required in order to undertake your event planning role?
If they have any doubts, you are open to risk.
Risk management can be educational and progressive. Risk avoidance can be very, very expensive. For business and for individuals.
A review of existing policies, including H&S, to assess how they align with the role of your event personnel.
Interviews/discussions with `Department Heads’ to ascertain the `corporate rules’ for Procurement, Insurance, Travel, H&S, HR, Finance, etc, and aligning them with the event planning process.
Audit of event planning procedure and processes.
Review of selected suppliers, and supplier recruitment process (if required).
Communication gaps. For instance, It will highlight where management rules are not known or not understood.
Strengths and weaknesses in existing processes with planning, with stakeholders and with personnel.
Strengths and weaknesses associated with your key suppliers.
A full Review & Assessment process provides a report that is not only a useful tool for your ‘events’ personnel but can be disseminated throughout your business. Contact us for more information.
“.....Relevant Risk has a deep operational knowledge of this field and immediately added a huge amount of value. The output was fantastic and quickly adopted by the business......"
Donna Trapnell
Director – Corporate Client Services, AXA
For further information about the work we did for AXA and other clients, review our Case Studies.
We call it the Knowledge Audit. Critical must-know information when planning and managing events. A training course. An assessment tool. A knowledge audit. If you're not sure what you don't know then this will probably be the best training investment you have ever made. Priced from £25. Find out more »

If you handle hundreds of events every year and employ numerous agencies, either under contract or ad-hoc, it may be time to undertake a risk review with your suppliers.
Responsibility and liability is often shared and certainly cannot be transferred - even by contract - particularly if the matter falls under criminal law.
Your suppliers. Your duty of care.
Interested to hear more. Contact us or read more about our assessment.
Feel free to give us a no-obligation call if you need to find out a little more information or need some free advice. We are here to help. You can contact us via email or phone. Or twitter or via linkedin.

Every business uses it's own particular documents and process when planning events. From brief, contact reports, operations manuals and evaluation documents to name a few.
We can review your event documents and process, and provide recommendations on what should be included so that your business is protected in the event of an incident or investigation.
In business, you are guilty and have to prove your innocence. And your paper trail may be your only proof!
Contact us if you would like further information on this service.