source: 天下雜誌
The concept of Color Event comes from Holi
Festival in India, which celebrates the beginning of Spring. Hindus believe it
is a time of enjoying spring's abundant colors and saying farewell to winter. Traditionally,
washable natural plant-derived colors such as turmeric, neem, dhak, kumkum were
used; but water-based commercial pigments are increasingly used.
Festival of Colors - World's BIGGEST color
party
Later on, in 2012, the first Color Run took
place in USA and then started the global trend in the color events.
THE COLOR RUN™ - 2015 Shine Tour
When people enjoy the happiness and get
wild in color powder, they may not know this kind of powder is inflammable. The
worst of all is the planner does not know the risk. Dust explosion requires the
conditions of the following five:
1. A combustible dust
2. The dust is suspended in the air at a sufficiently high
concentration
3. The dust cloud is confined (not always required)
4. There is an oxidant (typically atmospheric oxygen)
5. There is an ignition source
However, the risky point is the ignition can be:
1. Electrostatic discharge
2. Friction
3. Arcing from machinery or other equipment;
4. Hot surfaces, including e.g. overheated bearings
5. Fire
Most event planners avoid the fire but the crowds, which cannot be eliminated, is the ignition! The unfortunate dust explosion of Taiwan Color Party teaches the worst lesson.
Risk management is a process designed to
safeguard the various elements of a meeting / an event by minimizing the amount
or severity of harmful events that may occur, according to the PCMA book –
Professional Meeting Management. The importance speaks loud from the past
experience yet many organizers still turn head around. It is not only the
matter of human life, but also information, property, financial investment,
organization image and professional reputation. To be a responsible event
planner, start to review your risk management plan and start it now!
Step
1. Identify those elements or activities which could carry a risk.
Step
2. Identify the risks associated with each element or activity.
Step
3. Determine the possibility of occurrence of the risk and the severity of the
consequences if the risk does happen.
Step
4: Risk Prioritization.
Step
5. Formulate, prepare and implement strategies to manage risks
Some common strategies used for risk management are:
1) Risk Avoidance: Avoid those elements and activities which could
carry a risk.
2) Risk Retention: Accept some or all the consequences associated
with a particular risk.
3) Risk Transfer: Transfer the risk to a third party, e.g.
transferring the event security responsibility to a security agency.
4) Risk Reduction: Reduce the risk associated with a particular
element or activity by developing an effective contingency action plan.
Step
6. Monitor the risks periodically
All in all, we should always prepare for
the worst. In the tragedy of Taiwan Color Party, the lack of evacuation
accessibility and immediate response increased the mass injury. While the solid
risk management plan is done, can the real condition support?
There is no second chance to manage the
risk, so Do it Right the First Time.
Shall you wanna learn more, here is the conference for you.
22nd Anuual Risk Minds International (7-11 December 2015, Amsterdam)
※ Reference
Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi
Risk Management Plan for Events http://www.eventeducation.com/risk-management-events.php
