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‘Crowd safety is not about reinventing the wheel’: how UK festivals can keep people safe from crowd surges

What can be done to ensure greater crowd safety? Here, we speak with several experts to understand.

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And then there was the 2021 AstroWorld tragedy, headlined by US rapper Travis Scott. A calamitous series of events claimed the lives of 10 people, while another 11 people suffered cardiac arrest. One of those lost was Madison Dubiski, which led to the formation of the Pink Bows Foundation, which holds a mission to make global events safer.

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  • The Pink Bows Foundation progressed its aim of making events safer, with another positive step towards establishing an international standard. The first courses in the Middle East, in Riyadh and Jeddah, were hosted by ESM Operations, whose own staff were joined by invited attendees from members of The Royal Guard, the Government’s General Entertainment Authority, […]

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  • The goal of Pink Bows Foundation is as simple as it is powerful: to prevent parents around the world from having to go through what the Dubiski Family went through in the aftermath of the Astroworld crowd crush in November of 2021 – when they waited in vain for their daughter, Madison, to return home. […]

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  • Showstop Procedure, a global crowd safety training and certification programme for venues and large-scale event organisers, has been accredited by Highfield Qualifications. Founded by the Pink Bows Foundation in memory of Madison Dubiski, who was 23 years old when she died in a crush during a Travis Scott concert at the Astroworld Festival in Houston, […]

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