The truck arrives at 4am. An articulated truck, or more likely several of them, pulling into a stadium car park while the city sleeps. By the time a single ticket-holder joins the queue outside, a crew of hundreds has already spent 48 to 72 hours rigging, cabling, testing, and arguing about load wei...

Pick up any event licensing application that requires a crowd safety plan and you are holding, without knowing it, the accumulated output of several named investigators working through the aftermath of specific catastrophes. The requirement didn’t emerge from industry reflection. It was writte...