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I used to know a guy who planned the city’s summer schedule of events, such as free concerts and Fourth of July fireworks.  He was in charge of the “artistic planning,” but that’s not all that goes into planning events like that.  Someone also needs to be in charge of crowd control, to make the event run as smoothly as possible, as well as to guarantee the crowd’s safety.

Ineffective crowd control can result in people getting hurt.  For instance, if a special event requires that a road or part of a road be shut down, the proper traffic safety equipment and plastic barriers must be used.  For containing pedestrian traffic, things like crowd control fence must be in place.  Signs and people directing traffic are also important.

Not paying attention to these things can cause people to get hurt at your event.  Special events frequently require roads being closed down; unless there is adequate signage and barriers to prevent drivers from entering the pedestrian area, someone could get badly injured.  Drivers often have a hard time adjusting to differences in the streets that they drive on every day, so this is especially important.

Another time it is particularly important is during something like Fourth of July, where the entertainment requires something potentially dangerous.  Fireworks can be extremely dangerous when handled by the wrong person, so temporary fencing or barricades are necessary to ensure that spectators don’t wander into the “danger zone.”

Don’t overlook the importance of crowd control — make sure guests at your event are safe!

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I’m a simple, blue-collar guy.  I fix multi spindle machines.  I got into it after the army, got married, had a kid, and kept the job because it was steady money, and with my wife’s teaching salary, it was enough to keep us comfortable.

Thing is, my son, John, is smart-gifted is what they started calling him when he was eight.  Being a teacher, my wife talked to a counselor, who suggested that we put him in a private school.  I’ve always been skeptical of private schools; I thought they turned out spoiled brats, but my wife wanted it, and who was I to argue.  It tightened the finances at first, but eventually, I got a raise and my wife found a summer school position that paid pretty well. 

John’s 11 now, and last week, the school had “go to work with your parent day.”  My wife and I discussed it and agreed John probably wouldn’t be that interested in my work, so she said he should come watch her teach.

Gifted as he is, the kid still values a day off of school, and there was no way he was going to school with his mom on a potential day off, so he said he wanted to go with me.  I was a little skeptical since I knew all his friends were going to law firms, hospitals, and what not.  I told him he probably wouldn’t like my work, but he insisted.  Again, who was I to say no?

That was the day I finally realized just why they say my son is gifted.  He didn’t even think about the other kids at the law firms or hospitals; he just came in and started asking questions.  He wanted to know about everything.  I’d be working on a used screw machine that looked like it came straight fro the dump, and he’d ask me about every single part he could point to.  While I was eating lunch, he brought my box of machine tools over to the table, pulled out every single one and asked me what it was and what it did.  After lunch, he insisted on helping me the rest of the day.  I’d ask him for tools and he’d hand me the right one every time.

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