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[Hedra42]

Hynad said:

generic-user-1 said:


yes you should check if the building is safe, thats not much work and its your event and you get people in danger if the place you host your event at isnt safe. we do it every time if we host a university event outside our buildings, even if we have a good working relationship with the place we host at. (and if we host bigger events we have the tüv checking if the event has a zero co² footprint). thats NORMAL,not booking the cheapest possible place from craigslist...

You are being serious about this, right?

Like... Really, you're serious...

I...

Nah. You're not worth arguing this over with.

Like it or not, health and safety is something that's difficult to get away from. It gets taken to extremes, but in this culture of making lawsuits over the slightest thing, everything has to be covered. Having said that, fire risk has to be taken seriously.

(Edit:) - If the reports I read are accurate, the venue did not have permits to host more than 500 people and all the extra electrical equipment, part of its car park had collapsed due to storms, and so the local fire marshals (who arrived because someone triggered a fire alarm by opening an armed door) declared the whole thing a fire hazard. This stuff should have been checked out beforehand.