Weymouth and Portland Safety Advisory Group
Our objectives are to provide safety information to ensure events cause minimal adverse impact, to promote high levels of best practice and encourage applicants to make certain that public safety is of paramount importance.
The type and scale of events considered vary immensely and can include:
• Music Festivals
• Sporting events
• Firework
displays
• Processions
• Specialist Festivals
Who is on the Safety Advisory Group?
The membership comprises of:
Weymouth & Portland Borough Council representatives (licensing, health
and safety, environmental health, outdoor leisure, highways).
Dorset
Police
Dorset County Council (emergency planning and highways)
HM
Coastguard
Dorset Trading Standards
Dorset Fire and Rescue
SW Ambulance
Service NHS Trust
Other members are invited when necessary. The chair is currently Grant Armfield, Safety Manager WPBC
How the Group works
• We act as a point of contact for anyone organising an event to which
the public are invited
• Members of the SAG provide advice and guidance
on their specific areas of responsibility to the Event Organiser and other
agencies involved
• If necessary members of the SAG will meet with the
Organiser to provide advice and guidance
• The chair of the SAG keeps
written records of meetings and ensures actions arising are clearly
documented
• In some circumstances some members of the SAG will monitor
and review events to ensure standards are maintained.
If you intend to hold a Festival or Event you should contact the SAG well in advance of your intended activity date. For example a large scale event can, depending on its complexity, take up to 12 months from planning to the delivery stage.
Please note that the SAG is not responsible for gaining land owners consent as to the use of land or granting licences for event.
For further information please contact Matt Ryan, Leisure and Events Manager, on 01305 838557. If the event includes retail sale of alcohol, music, dancing, the sale of hot food and drink after 23:00 hours or stalls selling goods, please contact Sue King, Licensing Officer on 01305 838599