Crowd Management Final Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions

Crowd Management Final Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions Crowd Control - Correct Answer A public security practice where large crowds are managed to prevent the outbreak of crown crush, affray, fights involving drunk and disorderly people or riots Crowd Management - Correct Answer - The systematic planning for, and the supervision of the orderly movement and assembly of people - The assessment of the people handling capabilities of a space prior to its use - Includes: occupancy, means of ingress/ egress, processing procedures, expected types of activities, group behavior Crowd Surges - Correct Answer - A "surge" is a sudden and powerful movement like one would witness with waves of the ocean tide - Unrelenting pressure from all side- a crushing "drowning" in a sea of people - Occur in places where too many people are crowded in one place (entrance/exit, standing in a room) 2 Components - Correct Answer 1. Dense Crowd- lots of people in one place; force magnifies at the epicenter or on the edges 2. Catalyst- something that causes crowd to shift or move [sudden rain, more people, fights] Most deaths caused by asphyxiations, not trampling (people squeezed so hard they can't breathe) - Pushing from the back to front; from the front to back; & potentially from the top if one falls - Often caused by failure to create a safe environment (not always a stampede)