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Show-Safe pathway

Show-Safe

Four steps, from the control room position to the strategic picture.

Show-Safe is a pathway to develop your decision making in the context of safety and security management and control for events and venues. You progress from the operational through to the strategic with each step developing the next level of skill, knowledge and capability. Developed with Halo Solutions and the Pink Bows Foundation.

  1. 01
    OperationalPilot

    Show-Safe Level 1: Operations: Introduction to Security Operations Control

    Who it is for

    Control room operators, ground level operations staff, new entrants to security operational control roles, venue and site security staff.

    What you will cover

    • Event control as a function, from a stadium control room to a folding table
    • How decisions really get made under pressure, and your own attitude to risk
    • MBED and the 3S's: safety, security and service
    • Cue recognition, escalation thresholds and METHANE reporting
    • A live incident simulation and a structured debrief

    1 day in person

  2. 02
    TacticalOpen for booking

    Show-Safe Level 2: Manager – Security Operations Control

    Who it is for

    Control room managers, incident coordinators, safety managers, venue operations leads, security team leaders.

    What you will cover

    • Running the control function with real decision authority
    • The safety plan as a decision resource, tested against the Halo mitigation model
    • Decision authority, role clarity and legal defensibility
    • A live escalating incident, decided, communicated and logged in real time
    • A mock coroner's inquest built from your own decisions

    2 days in person

  3. 03
    StrategicIn development

    Show-Safe Level 3: Tactical – Joint Security Operations Control

    Who it is for

    Senior leads working across agencies and broad stakeholder groups

    What you will cover

    • Running the control function working with multiple agencies and stakeholders
    • Managing competing mandates and perspectives in the decision process
    • Decision authority, role clarity and legal defensibility
    • A live escalating incident, decided, communicated and logged in real time

    1 day in person

  4. 04
    StrategicIn development

    Show-Safe Level 4: Strategic – Global Security Operations Control

    Who it is for

    Global and major-event leadership carrying decisions across territories and time zones.

    What you will cover

    • The decision process and control function across time and geography
    • Evaluating wider and external factors and their potential impact on operations
    • Anticipating, identifying and escalating
    • A live escalating incident, decided, communicated and logged in real time
    • Defensibility of decision making across a distributed operation

    1 day in person

Levels 1 and 2 are open for booking.

The later steps are in development — registering interest tells us which of them your organisation needs first, and that shapes the order we build them in.

Register interest