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Safe and Healthy Crowded Places (2018)

A$60.50GST inclusive

AIDR’s Safe and Healthy Crowded Places handbook outlines nationally agreed principles for safe and healthy crowded places, and draws from national and international strategies, policies, guidelines, standards and doctrine.

This handbook is multidisciplinary in nature and addresses wide-ranging, applicable topics. The principles in the handbook are to be used to provide guidance for planning in relation to safe and healthy crowded places and should not be viewed as binding or mandating an activity.

The handbook is structured to provide managers of crowded places an overarching framework for risk management, communication and incident and emergency planning. This gives context to advice relating to security, site safety, and health issues including food and water security, waste management and disease control. The handbook includes reference to crowd behaviour and psychology, preparing managers of crowded places to understand and anticipate different elements that may produce or result from an incident or emergency. The guidance also reflects the heightened focus in Australia and globally on deliberate and hostile acts, including terrorist incidents.

 

PDF’s of all handbooks are freely available to download on the Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub: https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/collections/handbook-collection/

The Australian Disaster Resilience Handbook Collection:

  • provides an authoritative, trusted and freely available source of knowledge about disaster resilience principles in Australia.
  • aligns national disaster resilience strategy and policy with practice, by guiding and supporting jurisdictions, agencies and other organisations and individuals in their implementation and adoption.
  • highlights and promotes the adoption of good practice in building disaster resilience in Australia.
  • builds interoperability between jurisdictions, agencies, the private sector, local businesses and community groups by promoting use of a common language and coordinated, nationally agreed principles.