Crowd Management

DOI: 10.23912/978-1-911396-88-8-3900	ISBN: 978-1-911396-88-8
Published: December 2019	Component type: book

10.23912/978-1-911396-88-8-3900

Contributors

• William O’Toole, Events Management Specialist (Author)
• Dr Stephen Luke, Critical Care, Mass Gathering, Pre-Hospital & Retrieval Medicine Specialist (Author)
• Travis Semmens, Australian Concert and Entertainment Security Pty Ltd (Author)
• Dr Jason Brown, Thalys (Author)
• Andrew Tatrai, Australian Concert and Entertainment Security (Author)

Cite as

O’Toole, Luke, Semmens, Brown & Tatrai, 2019

O’Toole, W., Luke, D.S., Semmens, T., Brown, D.J. & Tatrai, A. (2019) Crowd Management. Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/978-1-911396-88-8-3900

Chapters

Chapter 1 The Management Framework (O’Toole, Luke, Semmens, Brown & Tatrai)

Chapter 2 Decision Making on the Day (O’Toole, Luke, Semmens, Brown & Tatrai)

Chapter 3 Risk and Management (O’Toole, Luke, Semmens, Brown & Tatrai)

Chapter 4 Crowd Risks and Advanced Tools (O’Toole, Luke, Semmens, Brown & Tatrai)

Chapter 5 Crowd Behaviour Theory (O’Toole, Luke, Semmens, Brown & Tatrai)

Chapter 6 Crowd Planning and Preparation (O’Toole, Luke, Semmens, Brown & Tatrai)

Chapter 7 Security Theory Process, definitions, tools and techniques (O’Toole, Luke, Semmens, Brown & Tatrai)

Chapter 8 Security Hostile Attacks (O’Toole, Luke, Semmens, Brown & Tatrai)

Chapter 9 Integrating Health (O’Toole, Luke, Semmens, Brown & Tatrai)

Chapter 10 Crowded Health (O’Toole, Luke, Semmens, Brown & Tatrai)

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