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FEATURE | |
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IAAM
Responds to Safety and Security Issues with Task Force |
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The first working meeting of IAAM’s Safety and Security Task Force (SSTF) that was formed by President Lionel Dubay in October was held at the International Crowd Management Conference in San Diego the latter part of November. “Understanding the heightened level of security concerns for our facilities, the IAAM established this task force with a clear mandate to develop a series of security “best practices” that our facility managers could employ, test against their current security programs and/or utilize for the complex security programs,” said Frank Poe, chair of the SSTF. “Further, the task force will work to identify potential educational material and training aids that our members could avail themselves of through the various educational offerings of IAAM.” In addition to prioritizing the charges and tasks that this group seeks to accomplish over the next year, Poe organized this 20 + member group into subgroups to address facility- and industry-specific issues. (A list of the SSTF members can be found at the end of this article). For instance, similar facilities such as arenas, stadiums, university facilities and amphitheaters will form one subgroup to be headed by Larry Perkins with SSTF members Patrick Leahy, Greg Davis, Tom Paquette and Mickey Farrell. The convention centers/exhibit halls subgroup will be headed by Dan Saunders and Robyn Williams will head performing arts group. Addressing issues of ingress/egress, building codes and architectural concerns will be another group headed by Rick Martin with HOK. Lastly, two final groups will consist of private security companies which will be headed by Cory Meredith of StaffPro and issues that are being faced by our facilities in Europe and Asia will comprise another group headed by Cliff Wallace. Both of these final groups will provide invaluable assistance and advise to the work of the facility specific groups. The dissemination of information will occur through the publication of a series of “best practices.” These “best practices” will be established through the exchange of information from the above groups in addition to contributions from security heads of the major league sport groups. In addition, all information will be provided to IAAM’s Body of Knowledge and the Masters program, the Public Assembly Facility Management School at Oglebay, VMA, WCVM, and other industry-related organizations. While the majority of the work of the Task Force will take at least a year to accomplish, there will be incremental releases of pertinent information throughout the year. There are a lot of “practices” that are already in place and can be publicized within the next few months. |
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