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@foggydave @VictoriaPeckham @TonyDowson5 @thetimes That's the real risk. A plan in a drawer helps nobody on the night. In the standard tier it's a handful of simple procedures your staff actually know. We've written the guidance up plainly here, free: help.safetydocs.org

@Elainebks @VictoriaPeckham @thetimes Right. Royal Assent was April 2025 with at least a 24-month run-in, so there's no legal requirement yet. Events being cancelled now aren't being cancelled by the Act. Simple explainer here: help.safetydocs.org

@LaurenMaeve @VictoriaPeckham @thetimes A hall is only in scope if you reasonably expect 200+ people there at once, from time to time. Capacity alone doesn't decide it. Even then it's simple procedures and a bit of staff time. Free plain-English guide: help.safetydocs.org

@JohnWil45304495 @VictoriaPeckham @thetimes @ukhomeoffice The Home Office has said optional templates are being developed. Until then ProtectUK has free material, and we've written a simpler plain-English version for halls and small venues, free to use: help.safetydocs.org

@izzypod1 @VictoriaPeckham @thetimes Worth knowing: a church expecting 200+ at once is standard tier, even if crowds go over 800. That means simple procedures like evacuation and lockdown, no kit to buy, and the regulator leads with advice. Plain-English guide, free: help.safetydocs.org

@realPhilTaylor @HCH_Hill It isn't in force yet, so nothing is being stopped by it right now. When it does come in (not before spring 2027), places for 200 to 799 people need simple procedures, not barriers. Plain-English guide here: help.safetydocs.org

I've spent two years talking to venues about Martyn's Law. On Friday Figen Murray told me something I'd not thought of. The security sector knows about it. Government knows about it. The public don't. Her estimate: ask 100 people in the street and 92 have never heard of it. Two or three could tell you what it is. That changes once the duties go live in April 2027 and the Home Office runs a public awareness campaign. They can't run it earlier, for good reasons she explains. Here's what actually happens after that. People learn they have a legal right to security at a venue. They turn up, nobody checks a bag, the steward on the door is on his phone. Out comes the camera, onto social media it goes, and the venue is named. Then the part I hadn't followed through. A venue being publicly called out for poor security is also a venue being advertised to the wrong people. Her words: "you also need to think like a terrorist". So the risk of waiting isn't the SIA. Figen is clear the regulator won't be heavy handed in year one. One of the risks is your own customers, with phones, from day one. If you already know the Act inside out, there are still three reasons to listen. The first is the one above. The second is Figen herself. A therapist who wasn't a public speaker. The concert 18 months after the attack where she sobbed through the set because nobody was checking all the bags. buzzsprout.com/2501851/episod…

@philclarke0170 @LewisB120 @MillwallDan85 Martyn's Law doesn't set bag sizes or charges. Big venues need reasonably practicable measures, and a bag search policy is one Home Office example. The detail is the club's call, and it's not legally in force yet. Simple explainers: help.safetydocs.org

@DickieDogfather @CptHastings1916 Worth knowing before it puts anyone off. A bonfire night only comes into scope if 800 or more people are expected and entry is checked by ticket, payment or membership. Free, open-access ones aren't covered. Free guides: help.safetydocs.org

Not quite. When the 2025 show was called off, the organisers pointed to National Insurance, the minimum wage and the cost of living, plus over £150k spent on security after a 2023 scare. Martyn's Law wasn't in force then and still isn't. The simple version: help.safetydocs.org

Good spot. For premises, the Act needs a building on the site that the public can get into, so an open square on its own isn't qualifying premises. A ticketed event there with 800 or more people could be a qualifying event, but free, open-access gatherings aren't. None of the duties are in force yet either, it's expected spring 2027. Plain-English guides here: help.safetydocs.org

In SafetyDocs Contractor Compliance the venue writes its document list once. Contractors get one email, then reminders listing what's still missing. Every contractor is a card that moves by itself: requested, received, under review, compliant. #EventSafety

"Just following up on the RAMS." If you run events, you've sent that this week. The list of who owes what lives in one person's head. When they're on holiday, the chasing stops and nobody notices until show week.

SafetyDocs Contractor Compliance reads each upload in seconds. Signed? Dated? Names this venue? Cover past the event date? The contractor sees what's missing before the venue has looked. Caught at their desk, not yours. #EventSafety

An expired employers' liability certificate sat in a venue's contractor folder last month. Nobody lied. The contractor sent what they had, the venue filed it. It stays there until an insurer, the SAG or an inspector asks to see it.

Live staff emergency cards, with click to call In an emergency, no one should be hunting for a phone number. SafetyDocs gives every steward live staff emergency cards on their phone. Pick the incident, follow the steps in order, and tap the contact to call them. No panic, no fumbling, no out-of-date PDF. The contacts pull from one master sheet, so the cards stay current as your roster changes. Built on your venue's own structure and aligned to the Purple Guide and Martyn's Law. Start a 14-day free trial, no card required. safetydocs.org

Every successful event depends on something the audience never sees: the safety planning behind it. For a large event that means hundreds of documents, still managed in separate Word files, spreadsheets and email chains. SafetyDocs fixes that. Start free: safetydocs.org

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