In this episode, I start with a solo chat about my experience at IBIT 2024 conference on event safety and security in Cologne, Germany before sharing three interviews with Roxana, Alexandra and May-Britt, three women who are spearheading change in the industry. With varied backgrounds in production and event safety, they share their views on their role in the industry, what inspires them, what draws them to be part of the YES Group (as part of the Yourope Festival Association), licensing,...

Olivia Bellas, a facilitator who empowers people to make sense of complex work, speaks with Íse about the importance of creating an environment with purpose to get the most out of meetings and gatherings. We explore the power of facilitation to create safety, empower people and make big change. Support the show: If you enjoyed this episode and want to say thanks, you can leave a tip. About Olivia: A facilitator at the intersection of arts, digital, charity and government spaces, with a 25...

In this episode I get to chat to Becca Wilusz, Assistant Director of Athletics / Game Operations and Championships at Duke University in North Carolina. Becca discusses her unusual career path into crowd safety at events, how she designs event plans, applies her background in biomedical engineering to planning, risk and data analysis and how her team work with students and student bodies to manage crowds. We only scratched the surface of Becca’s extensive experience and knowledge so I look...

This is my first Safety Sistas Solo episode and is an honest share about my intention on improving the industry, what I truly value, the systems that help me, understanding decision making, feeling incompetent, developing awareness, behaviour in the event control room, fear of rejection, being too hard on ourselves, and what happens when we trust ourselves. For more information on my work in crowd safety, see https://murphymorris.co LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isemurphymorris/

I meet with Emma Parkinson, who leads the MSc Crowded Places and Public Safety Management at Coventry University, works as a crowd safety manager on some of the world’s biggest events as well as studying a Professional Doctorate into learning from High Reliability Organisations such as nuclear, aviation and space. We discuss our role behind the curtain in facilitating joy and escapism in events, the power of volunteers in a crowd safety management plan, respecting, training and briefing our...

In this episode, I catch up with Becky Stevens, director of Hybred Events, on site at Lumiere Durham 2023, a biennial light art festival in the north of England. Becky shares insight into how we approach event control, discusses the importance of training for safety advisory groups and debunks the narrative of us being the “safety police”. She shares her experience of having to manage an emergency evacuation of Bloc Weekend festival at London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, as well as...

Welcome to my first in person podcast episode, where I sit down with Morten Therkildsen, Director of Safety at Roskilde Festival in Denmark. We caught up at the IBIT 2023 Conference in Cologne, where we were both speaking. I represented the Global Crowd Management Alliance speaking about Zone Ex, and Morten spoke about the meaning of, and how we use the words Safety and Security, especially as in some languages they are the same word. We spoke about some of the sessions we sat in,...

After the release of BBC’s File on 4 undercover investigation, on the 3 October 2023, into “sham training” in the security industry, Íse sits down with Ann Marie Chebib, Managing Director of Select Security and Secretary of UK Crowd Management Association and Global Crowd Management Alliance and KT Sonnen (from our first episode), COO of Invictus Professional Training and PhD student to frame this issue in the wider context of the industry. We take a step back to look at the bigger picture...

Janthea Bridgen is CEO of Nipperbout, providing child care and children’s activities for the events industry. We talk about how she got to where she is today, what it takes to provide best practice and what challenges she faces in the industry. She shares fascinating insights in how she risk assesses events, debunks a theory that sometimes divides event safety teams and what she would like to see change in 10 years time. I learned so much from listening to Janthea and hope that you too can...

Welcome to our first episode of Safety Sistas! The podcast about the people who keep you safe. I interview people who fascinate me with their experience, wisdom and knowledge in the world of safety and I want to celebrate the work they do behind the scenes to keep us all safe at events (and beyond). We kick things off with a bang with the wise and hilarious KT Sonnen. KT has worked in event security and medical for almost twenty years, is COO of Invictus Professional Training and now a full...

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