There where lots of Health and Safety considerations to be looked into for our final event. After attending a Introduction to Operations and Health & Safety talk I felt confident enough to deal with lots of the issues that might arise. The talk was given by Layla Barron the Head of Operations at Watershed, details of the talk including slides can be viewed here.  

Our plans to keep our audience separated from the general public at the Watershed posed a few issues. We planned for our guests of The Shining event to come into the building via a back entrance fire exit, we had to carefully plan how our audience would flow from space to space, not blocking any vital doorways or entering no go areas. We wanted to block off various windows and signage so as to keep our Hotel illusion as much as possible. Any cables we needed would have to be properly taped into place and out of the way. All electrical equipment had to be supplied in advance to the Watershed tech team for PAT testing and any fabrics needed to be treated so as to be flame resistant in the event of a fire. We also accounted for the arrival of any guest with disabilities, ensuring they could enjoy the entire experience.

Click on the image below for an enlarged view of the risk assessment I completed for the events at the Watershed.