Location Information

  • January 5th 2027 from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM ESTJanuary 6th 2027 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ESTJanuary 7th 2027 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST
  • McAlister Auditorium at Furman University
  • 3300 Poinsett Hwy, Greenville, SC, 29613 US

About the Event

Emergency Preparedness for Live Events is a three-day, hands-on workshop for the people who run and work in performance venues: production managers, house managers, stagehands, technical directors, venue operators, and the students and early-career staff coming up behind them. Presenters Danielle Hernandez and Doug Bruce (Creative Safety, Inc.). and to-be-announced guests, will walk participants through the fundamentals: what an emergency action plan actually needs to contain, how to read your own venue for hazards you've stopped noticing, and how communication structures break down under pressure, through the science of crowd behavior and movement, severe weather and life-safety decision-making, and the security and active-threat considerations that come with hosting a high-profile event. The approach throughout is grounded in Event Safety Alliance (ESA) guidance, the ANSI event-safety standard series, OSHA's emergency action plan requirements, and NFPA life-safety provisions translated into plain language for an audience that knows its venue's technical systems cold but may never have had formal training in crowd management or incident planning.

This is not a lecture series. Day 1 closes with small-group scenario exercises; Day 2 builds toward a full tabletop exercise set in the host venue. Day 3 offers hands-on CPR/AED and Stop the Bleed certification from Upstate CPR alongside guided site-visit walkthroughs of campus venues. Attendees leave with a working vocabulary for emergency planning, a tested framework for building their own venue's plan, and direct experience applying it under realistic pressure, not just slides to file away.

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CPR/First Aid/AED training will require you to kneel on the ground to perform your skills practical. If you need alternate accommodations due to mobility, please select Yes below.



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This event is subject to cancellation if a minimum of 10 is not met. A full refund will be given if this occurs.


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