International Event Guidance

Search our database of official rules and guidance to find the information you need to plan your events.

A guide focusing on the key aspects of event planning and the council’s event requirements. It provides a useful reference but is not a definitive source.

A guide with introductory information for security. It includes details about general guarding, guarding with dogs, firearms, crowd control, bodyguards and licensees in Tasmania.

A guide highlighting the threats that occur in large crowds and how they can be overcome to ensure saftey.

A guide designed for event supervisors and managers which can also be used by waste contractors, local councils and waste educators.

The study provides clarity on these threats from 2014 on “active shooter” incidents, designed to help law enforcement with data so they can better understand how to prevent, prepare for and recover from these incidents.

A guide developed by the meetings and events industry of Australia it is in partnership with the human rights and equal opportunity commission and is designed for people organising events to ensure accessibility for all.

Guidelines designed to increase the understanding of an active armed offender in a crowd. They highlight key roles for owners and operators: so they can prevent, prepare and respond to the risks proposed by such a threat.

Active Armed Offender Guidelines for Crowded Places, Appendix A

Active Armed Offender Guidelines for Crowded Places, Appendix B

Active Armed Offender Guidelines for Crowded Places, Appendix C

Guidelines designed to increase the understanding of threats posed by an active shooter. They highlight key roles for owners and operators: so they can prevent, prepare and respond to the risks proposed by such a threat.

An Act establishing the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust, defining the functions and powers, to provide for the Adelaide Festival Centre management and operations.

An Act to establish the Adelaide Festival Corporation; to provide for the conduct of the
Adelaide Festival of Arts; and for other purposes.

An Act to provide for the erection in the City of Adelaide of a Festival Theatre and for the
financing there of and matters connected therewith and incidental there to and for other
purposes.

A document aim to strike a balance between events in park lands and recognising their unique environmental needs of event sites. The plan looks at identifying suitable event spaces in parkland and providing guidance on how to fit the event types of the site.

An Act to empower the Governor to make regulations and the Council of the Royal
Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia Incorporated, to make by-laws
for certain purposes.

An Act to provide for the issue to a person of at least 15 years of a card that may be used as proof of the age of its holder, and matters relating to the card

An Act making provisions for the treatment and control of people suffering with alcohol dependency or drug dependency. It brings an end to the provisions of the Inebriates Act 1885 and the Inebriate Hospitals Act 1892 and certain provisions of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1959.

Regulations under the Alcohol and Drug Dependency Act 1968.

Police guidance and contacts for reporting Alcohol and Drugs

A project aiming to develop a document for police services all across Australia identify the best practice strategies to reduce alcohol-related harm in licensed premises.

An act with three main parts are; providing treatment, management, care and habilitation of people experiencing alcohol or drug use problems, promoting and subsidising research and education into alcohol and other drug use problems, establishing a coordinated focus on alcohol and other drug through the mental health implications.

Guidance for young people regarding the consumption and purchasing of Alcohol and Drugs

Information on Victorian law in relation to under age drinking and providing suggestions for minimising the harm.

Alternative Uses of Sports Grounds give advice to sports grounds that may host alternate
events such as religious gatherings and concerts.

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability.

An Act relating to the criminal law, and for other purposes

An Act relating to the criminal law, and for other purposes

This study identifies key risk factors impacting the crowd controller to patron ratio decision and develops
decision aids (Crowd Controller Assessment Tools) for use by those faced with advising on, or making
decisions about, crowd management. In undertaking this enquiry, current Australian and international literature
were reviewed to contextualise the project and create a basis for understanding a range of factors that impact
crowd and alcohol-related violence in the context of public events and venues.

Factors that impact the ratios of crowd control and the tools and steps needed to take during certain public scenarios at events and venues.

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