When planning for a live event you have to identify any risks and work on reducing them. To do this you have to do a risk assessment.
By composing a table such as this one risks can be categorised by Likelihood and consequence. People tend to start by reducing the yellow section first and then working on the others as appropriate for the event. A stage collapse would be considered catastrophic and a liquid spillage would be considered negotiable.
Live shows are split into 2 sections. The load in/load out & the performance. The risk assessments for these will be different. During the load in & load out Hazards will be things such as objects falling from hight and moving vehicles inside the venue where as during the performance they will be things like drunken related injuries and liquid spillages.
Anyone working on the show has to be provided with appropriate . HSE suggests the the average shouldn't exceed 107dB and the peak shouldn't exceed 140dB. They also suggest 'Where practical, the audience should not be allowed within 3m of any loudspeaker'(1).
In all when planning for a live event you have to remember each event will have different health and safety requirements based on the audience profile, genre of music, size of the venue and many other variables. While it can seem like a tedious thing taking proper health and safety percussions can save you and others from injury.
1 - http://www.hse.gov.uk/event-safety/noise.htm
Chart from - http://tspwiki.com/index.php?title=Risk_Assessment_and_Mitigation
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