Managing Risk in British Sport Security: Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment, and Mitigation Strategies

This report discusses managing risk and its importance in the event or in sport event, it is very clear that event has certain risk associated. Later this report has discussed hazard that potentially occur during event and identified those risk which might impact smooth process of these events, hazard may include; stadium design, terrorism and hooliganism.

Managing risk
TABLE OF CONTENT

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Identifying the hazard present in the event and analysing impact of these risk:.........................3
Risk register and risk matrix:.......................................................................................................6
Analysing the robustness of the risk assessment plan to reduce the error and mitigate the risk: 9
evaluating the efficacy of the risk assessment plan in ensuring safety:.......................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Risk is one of the most problem of every event, whether it local event or international
sport event. Managing risk is challenging because this include identification of potential hazard
and understanding likelihood of the risk. Risk assessment become every essential when it comes
to managing risk that might impact large number of audience. This study is based on British
sport security; UK is one of those country who organized global event successfully with the help
of effective security control (Amalberti and Vincent, 2020). This report will discuss hazard
present in the event and impact of these hazard. Later this report will discuss risk register and
risk matrix to ensure safety in the business environment. Later this report will discuss
rebourtness of the risk assessment plan to reduce error and the effect of risk. At last this report
will discuss efficacy of risk assessment plan and company’s strategy to ensure safety.
MAIN BODY
Identifying the hazard present in the event and analysing impact of these risk:
These risk are very powerful and can cause risk of life as well, these event have higher
chances of hazard that are sometimes not clearly identified.
Hazard Key risk Description
Stadium design:  It is very clear that if
stadium is smaller in
size then overcrowding
will become biggest
hazard.
 Due to lesser space
there is higher chances
of conflict that can
cause loss of life.
 Due lack of space,
audience will be
harmed (Lyon and
Popov, 2020).
design of stadium is one of the
biggest issue for every global
event, if the design does not
suite capacity of event then
there will be higher chances of
risk. It is very important for
organizer to arrange stadium
according invitation to
audience.
Terrorism:  Terrorism is not only British sport events might get

cause mass killing of
audience at the
stadium but this also
cause impact on
country’s security.
 Leak of confidential
information, there is
higher risk of losing
confidential
information due to
terrorism.
 Hijacking become
biggest risk if hazard is
terrorism in sport
event.
impacted due to act of
terrorism, this will impact
confidence of audience as well
as challenge national security.
there is higher chances of
cyber-attack that can impact
confidential area of the event
which means if terrorist
planned to capture one of
these event then cyber-attack
will become barrier.
Hooliganism:  Combating behaviour
is one of the biggest
risk of hooliganism
hazard which means
audience might have
aggressive behaviour
violating each other.
 Every sport event have
one biggest risk related
to rioting, due to
misbehave of audience
local community might
be oftened which can
cause riot.
 Key risk are related to
bullying and harming
Risk of hooliganism is very
high in every event, in sport
event, fans and staff might
misbehave and adopt
aggressive behaviour which
can start riot and can lead to
violation, crime, murder and
even loss of country.

each other, sometimes
behaviour of staff
member become risk
for event.
 football fans can adopt
destructive behaviour
that can impact
structure of the
stadium (Parent and
Ruetsch, 2020).
Security hazard:  Due to lack of security,
there is risk of
violation and risk of
leaking of confidential
information.
 Risk are related to
cyber security where
external threat can
attack system of the
event and steal
confidential
information such as
name and personal
details of player (Wu
and Li, 2021).
 Due to lack of
bodyguard security,
event might face risk
of cancelling event in
the middle.
Sport event can easily be
attacked if there is no effective
security is available which
means lack of security not
only become risk but this can
impact VIP member and
players as well. after so many
incident, sport event is
guarded by national security
service who use force to
control any violation.

Risk register and risk matrix:
Risk Description Responsible Likelihood Mitigation
Cyber security Due to lack of
cyber security,
there is high risk
which can impact
confidential area of
the event which
means cyber-attack
can steal that
information which
is very valuable for
the event for
example; personal
information of
players, staff
member and VIP
guest. due to
modern tech, it
become easy to
attack these system
and steal those
information.
IT department of
event will be
responsible if this
risk impact the
event along with
event manager
(Rugg-Gun,
2020).
High To reduce impact
of these risk, IT
have to set every
security protocol
that ensure high
class security to
those confidential
details and
information.
Risk of improper
management:
Due to lack of
proper
management there
is higher chances
of risk that might
impact the event,
risk management is
broad term which
Team manager,
event manager
and staff member
will be
responsible for
this risk.
Moderate To reduce impact
of this risk. event
manager have to
craft checklist that
ensure each and
evert part of the
event is safe for
example proper

include each and
every part of the
event and risk
associated with
that event.
Ineffective
management
become biggest
risk for sport event
that impact every
part. for example
due to lack of
skilled worker,
event might face
failure.
scheduling can
ensure risk are
mitigated and team
is fully prepared to
face any such
issue,
Risk of
uncertainty:
Due to lack of
security and
protocol, there is
higher chances of
uncertainty. these
uncertainty are
related to nature
and its impact on
the event. for
example due to
heavy rain, there is
chance of flood
which will stop
event. In sport
event, uncertainty
is biggest issue
Event manager
will be
responsible
because due to
lack of proper
planning this
uncertainty have
arrived.
Low To reduce
likelihood of this
risk, sport event
have to take certain
nesscaary steps
which may
include:
Contingency plan
that can lower the
impact of risk after
occurring, event
manger have to set
these plan to
reduce impact that
occur due to nature
and its movement.

which can not be
controlled
completely but
event can take
certain precaution.
Technological
risk:
Technological risk
are very common,
due to lack of
advance
technology, event
have higher risk of
failure for example
if CCTV is not
working properly
then this will
become issue for
the event. Lack of
surveillance can
cause huge losses
to event, audience
and staff member.
Apart from this,
due of lack of
technology,
communication
gap will become
risk for the event,
staff member will
be impacted due to
communication
disturbed by
Event manager,
team manager
and IT
department will
be responsible for
this risk occur
due to failure of
technology.
High To reduce impact
of this risk, sport
event have to adopt
advance
technology and
need to ensure
stadium have
CCTV available at
every corner. Apart
from this, event
manager need to
ensure each and
every staff have
communication
device that connect
them with the
management.

technology.
risk matrix
Likelihood Risk Negligible Minor Moderate Significant High
High Stadium
design
Very Low Low Medium High Very high
Very High Terrorism Very Low Low Medium High Very high
Low Hooliganis
m
Very Low Low Medium High Very high
Analysing the robustness of the risk assessment plan to reduce the error and mitigate the risk:
Event sport event need to have risk assessment plan that can ensure lower risk and
strategies to overcome risk, it is very clear that analysis event risk and mitigating them is
challenging for the event organizer (Davis, Slater and Baker, 2021). The robustness of this risk
management plan include:
Risk indicator: risk indicator of risk assessment plan allow organization or stadium to analyse
which part will going to have risk and how this risk will arrive in the process. The robustness of
the risk assessment plan allow reducing risk and mitigate them with the help of risk indicator, for
example; if their any risk of terrorism, these risk indicator will allow stadium and NaCTSO to
control terrorism.
Technological involvement: technological involvement allow stadium and organizer to rebust
risk assessment plan to manage error and mitigate those risk that might occur in the process, with
technological advancement, stadium can ensure safety for example; if stadium have new
technology then they can manage cyber-attacks, with powerful security system, these stadiums
need to have technological advancement to keep confidential information safe and secure in their
system of the process (Gerba, 2019).

evaluating the efficacy of the risk assessment plan in ensuring safety:
British sport event is impacted due to many reasons for example design of the stadium,
chances of risk become every high with lack of proper risk assessment plan. Risk assessment
plan allow event organizer to ensure safety before, during and after completion of the event
(Knewtson and Qi, 2019). There are certain effect of risk assessment plan on sport event of the
UK, these are:
Lower risk: The British Association of Chief of Police Officer (ACPO) have crafted effective
stadium design to manage crowd, to minimize risk of hooliganism, stadium design need to meet
all parameter of effective construction. Risk assessment plan allow British Sport event to reduce
or lower the risk of overcrowding which cause loss of life and impact performance of the event.
Changing of stadium design will reduce error that arrive during event, ACPO is developing
segregated section for footballs fans that become issue for other audience. After risk assessment
plan, ACPO can ensure safety and security of event and audience that will be attending these
events.
Effective security: risk assessment plan allow company to ensure safe and security, in sport
event mainly mega event, there is high chances of terrorist activities which can impact audience
and even national security of the country (Wilhelmsen and Ostrom, 2019). UK's government
have took certain steps to completely secure their stadium and make event run successfully, after
risk assessment plan, The U. K. National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) made
certain changes in the security protocol and designed new security method to manage terrorist
activities. The effectiveness of this risk assessment allow NaCTSO to place extra security efforts
at British sport stadium and completely cut off terrorist activities that might occur even after
security protocol.
Effective surveillance: to ensure security, CCTV is one of the best tool. This allows event
company or stadium to regularly monitor activities that seems unethical, British stadium have
CCTV surveillance continuously monitoring each and every activity, after risk assessment plan,
event staff is being continuously using CCTV to ensure safety is maintained. Apart from this,
NaCTSO have instructed British stadium to increase number of CCTV at the stadium, risk
assessment helped organization to ensure safety of the event with the help of continuous
surveillance with CCTV.

Effective crowd management: after risk assessment plan, crowd management become effective,
it is very clear that managing overcrowd was the biggest issue for the British stadiums but after
risk assessment, managing overcrowd was possible. Overcrowding not only impact process of
event but this also impact loss of life, every event have higher risk of lossing life due to rush
which can not be controlled (Kobrin, 2020). Female audience might face unethical touch due to
overcrowding that impact their privacy and security. To overcome this, risk assessment plan was
develop that allow British stadium to follow legislation process of managing crowd. Apart from
effective risk assessment, skills of staff member become very important in managing and
handling overcrowding in the event, skilled staff have ability to manage aggressive behaviour of
audience.
CONCLUSION
This report has discussed managing risk and its importance in the event or in sport event,
it is very clear that event has certain risk associated. Later this report has discussed hazard that
potentially occur during event and identified those risk which might impact smooth process of
these events, hazard may include; stadium design, terrorism and hooliganism. Design of stadium
become hazard because of capacity is low and audience are high then there might be chances of
overcrowding. Later this report has discussed risk register and risk matrix to analyse potential
risk and to overcome these risk. Later this report has discussed robustness of the risk assessment
plan to reduce and mitigate the risk. At last this report has discussed efficacy and effectiveness of
risk assessment plan and its impact on the event.

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