Event Operations and Risk Review
Your risk register looks fine. Would it hold up when it mattered?
Score your event documents against a professional benchmark. Fourteen weighted criteria. Headline result on screen, full report by email.
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Three situations we built this for
Event documentation fails in predictable ways, usually at the joins between the risk docs and the operational plan. Most of those failures are invisible until something goes wrong. These are the three we see most often.
You inherited a risk register from someone who is no longer in the role. The hazards have controls listed. The matrix looks professional. The version control field has someone's name in it. Nobody has opened the file since it was signed off. The controls have never been tested against this year's programme, and the decision holders on show day are not actually identified anywhere in the document. If something happened on the day, the plan you would be measured against is a fiction.
You have a hazard register, a production schedule, a control list, a supplier list, a briefing pack, and an emergency response plan. They were each prepared by different people, signed off at different times, and nothing proves they line up. Budget cuts removed staff from twenty to twelve but the plan still says twenty. The only way to check the set actually holds together is to read everything and chase every unanswered question. You do not have time.
Your event has temporary structures, rigged PA, pyrotechnics, lifting operations, or a venue running at capacity. You have paid specialists for each. They have done the testing, written the reports, signed the paperwork. Whether their thresholds are in your run sheet as triggers, whether your show caller knows who can call it, whether your wet weather alternative is written down anywhere your team can find it on the day, those are different questions. The standard you accept is the standard you get on the ground. When it matters, you want to walk in with a complete file, not scramble.
Score one risk document, free
A single pass benchmark score for your risk document against 14 weighted criteria. Teaser result on screen within about a minute. Full criterion by criterion report delivered by email.
Compare Free, Plus, and Pro
Free is the entry point. Plus is the working tool for people running real events with full document sets across risk and operations. Pro is the specialist domain layer that surfaces gaps between specialist advice and operational reality.
Multi document operational reviews
Plus is an AI review tool you chat with, purpose built for event operations. Upload your full document set: risk register, production schedule, control list, supplier list, briefing pack, emergency response plan, any other operations documents you rely on. The tool walks through them the way an experienced ops lead would, looking for the gaps between what your risk docs require and what your operational plan actually does. It produces structured registers, mapping tables, and paste ready email drafts to chase what is missing. Come back next week, upload more, pick up the thread.
- Hazard extraction into standard schemas
- Control mapping to evidence (attached, referenced, missing)
- Ownership and decision rights mapping
- Schedule-to-risk phase mapping
- Timing contradiction detection across documents
- Venue constraints audit
- Emergency response readiness audit
- Communications plan audit
- Contractor and supplier readiness
- Permit and licence condition audit
- Workforce competency and briefing check
- Cross document inconsistency detection
Specialist domain depth
Pro is for events where evidence failures lead to inquiries, not incident reports. Temporary structures. Rigged PA. Pyrotechnics. Lifting operations. Electrical loads. Weather exposure. A venue at or near capacity. Fire systems. Any one of those, and Pro is for you.
Pro does not certify or sign off. That stays with your competent specialists, always. What Pro does is map, domain by domain, what evidence you have across your risk documents and your operational plan, what you are relying on, and what is missing. It checks that specialist advice has actually landed in your run sheets, briefings, and contractor scopes. It drafts the questions to put to your specialists. It produces the final readiness pack your head of safety, your insurer, and the authority will all ask to see.
The result: an evidence chain that runs from specialist determination through your risk documents all the way into your operational plan. You walk into specialist review with a complete picture, and walk out with something defensible.
- Crowd journey scenario testing
- Queue and pinch-point stress testing
- Weather and environmental exposure readiness audit
- Temporary structures and temporary works evidence chain
- Electrical and power systems evidence audit
- Lifting, rigging, and crane operations evidence
- Pyrotechnics, special effects, and fire safety evidence
- Incident, near miss, and learning loop audit
- Final readiness pack and sign off boundary report
Iain Morrison
Founder, Behind the Stage
Co Founder, The Imagination Collaborative
35+ years delivering outdoor events
Australian Event Awards Event Manager of the Year (2010)
Iain has spent three decades in the part of events most people never see. The gates, the bump in, the 3am decisions, the moments where the plan either holds or it does not. He has delivered events for tens of millions of people, from 5,000-cap festivals to 200,000-plus public celebrations, across Australia, the Middle East, Europe and North America.
Behind the Stage exists because Iain got sick of watching good people burn out under bad systems. The Event Operations and Risk Review is built on the same operational thinking he has used across decades of delivering complex outdoor events: reviewing plans, challenging assumptions, finding problems early enough to fix them calmly.
Brands Iain has worked with
Everything else you might want to know
Yes. The Free Tier is free to use. One risk document, one benchmark score against 14 weighted criteria, no account required, no credit card. You get a headline result on screen and a full criterion by criterion report by email.
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One risk document per assessment. Best suited for risk registers, risk assessments, event safety plans, or emergency response plans. PDF, DOCX, or XLSX. Up to 100 pages, 25 MB.
The Plus and Pro tiers accept the full document set: schedules, run sheets, supplier lists, briefing packs, comms plans, permits, and more.
Usually under a minute for the headline result on screen. The full criterion by criterion report arrives by email shortly after, typically within a few minutes. If the service is under load it may take longer.
No. The Event Operations and Risk Review does not certify, approve, or sign off anything. A competent human remains responsible for every call.
What the tool does is surface what is evidenced, what is missing, and where specialist review is needed. Safety critical domains (structural, crowd crush and egress, fire engineering, electrical, weather go/no-go, lifting, rigging, pyrotechnics) are always escalated to competent specialists. The tool helps you walk into specialist review with a complete pack, which makes their work faster and more effective.
Free scores a single risk document against the 14-criterion benchmark. One-shot, no account needed, report by email.
Plus is an AI review tool you chat with across multiple documents and sessions. Risk register, production schedule, control list, supplier list, briefing pack, emergency response plan. Hazard mapping, evidence indexing, ownership, schedule integration, paste ready email drafts.
Pro extends Plus into the specialist domains: crowd journey, weather, structural, electrical, lifting, pyrotechnics, fire. Produces the final readiness pack your head of safety, insurer, and authority will all want to see.
The Free Tier caps at 100 pages per document. If your risk document is longer, upload the most material section for the benchmark score. For full document sets and large files, the Plus Tier handles up to 200 pages per document across multiple documents per session. The Pro Tier handles up to 500 pages per document.
The report gives you a score, a band, the three biggest gaps, and a criterion by criterion breakdown with evidence found, gaps, risk implication, and recommended action. Use it directly, share it with your team, or bring it to your specialists.
If your event has the scale or complexity the Free Tier flags (specialist domains, multiple documents, contradictions to chase), the Plus and Pro Tiers take the work from there.
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