Monday, April 14, 2008 ;
8:45 PM
Q4. Crowds are increasingly difficult to manage. What suggestions have you for controlling the behavior of a large group of people?
-In my opinion, I do agree with this statement somewhat as I have experienced firsthand how an unattended crowd came have adverse effects such as people getting hurt. Some suggestions which I can provide to crowd control can be classified in three main categories namely Schools, Conventions/Fairs and the Airports.
For Schools, crowd control is of upmost importance as if the school crowd is left unattended, it would become very chaotic and disorganized. Some suggestions which I think are very effective at crowd controlling are to have a good discipline master and teachers who know how to calm their classes down; another suggestion would be to have good incentives such as releasing students on time to make them behave well and finally school could split the number of students attending the event at any point in time so as to reduce the crowd.
Now moving on to large scale fairs/conventions where large number of people gather for many different reasons such as businesses or simply to view a product launch. Personally, I have been to quite a number of such fairs and I must confess that the way the events manager handles the crowd is very efficient as although there are many people attending the fair, the manager is able to constantly keep the crowd in check and prevent a ‘human jam’ from happening. They keep the crowds in check by having marshals constantly on patrol to keep the crowds moving, they also have specific lanes for people to walk in and in addition to that, some of these conventions have a special method to curb the crowds and that is by limiting the amount of tickets available thus this prevents too many people from participating in the event.
In the case of airports, they control the crowds effectively by installing cameras at regular intervals so as to facilitate the monitoring of the crowds, the airport also has security guards whom are on constant patrol and lastly, the airports schedule the passenger’s flights precisely such that the passengers will not arrive and depart in a horde. Airports also have travellators to allow passengers to reach their intended destination quickly and swiftly.
Therefore to conclude, here are my suggestions on how to manage a crowd. Firstly, we can deploy crowd control marshals to keep the crowds in check. Secondly, we can limit the number of people attending the event or functions at any one time and lastly, we can offer incentives to the crowds to allow them to settle down.
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