Sports and Special Events Management

AWR167 - Sport Event Risk Management

This course focuses on building capabilities for multi-agency collaboration. Intact university teams will learn to agree on basic concepts relative to: planning, risk assessment, training, exercising plans, and recovery/ business continuity through scenario-based training modules. The university teams will be composed of specialists from five distinct areas: campus police, athletic department, emergency management, Fire/HazMat, and emergency medical/health services. The expectation is for these leadership teams to return to their respective universities and coordinate development of a sport event security management system. The Sports Event Security Aware (SESA) system, developed by the Center for Spectator Sports Security Management (CSSSM), will be the basis for these back-home developments.

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MGT404 - Sports and Special Events Incident Management

This course emphasizes the unique aspects of response to an incident occurring during a sports/special event, including considerations for business continuity and after-action activities. You will learn the skills necessary to effectively manage an incident by applying and implementing a multi-disciplinary management team approach as described in the National Incident Management System (NIMS).

The course is designed to help develop athletic department staff, facility management personnel, campus public safety personnel, emergency response supervisors, and others involved in sports/special event management to better manage incidents that could occur during an event. 

At the end of the course a practical application exercise can be customized to your facility where the course is held.

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MGT412 - Sport and Special Event Evacuation Training and Exercise

This course provides assistance to sport venue managers to prepare and/or enhance an evacuation plan to assist emergency responders in implementing flexible and scalable evacuation activities (i.e. evacuation, sheltering in place, or relocation). These emergency activities might occur in isolation or as a result of a larger, multi-entity response initiative. The course is highly innovative in that it builds multi-agency collaboration by delivering critical evacuation planning information. The user will also obtain a “take away” package with visualization and CD’s from lessons learned, and templates for customizing their own evacuation plan.

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MGT440 - Enhanced Sports and Special Events Incident Management

This course is a scenario-based workshop focusing on incident management, crowd and evacuation management, and risk management. The course is intended to prepare for the response to a large-scale incident during sporting or special events. Participants will engage in three, simulation-supported, emergency response exercises designed to hone individual and team decision-making and management skills.

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