What must be in place for medical, fire and emergency services, and for spectators with disabilities?

At a low-risk event, your written safety plan must cover emergency medical measures (including participant medical measures under the National Health Act), proactive and reactive fire measures, and emergency evacuation procedures for designated people in a major incident (s4(9)-(10)). At every event, your stewards must help people with emergency evacuation procedures (s4(4)(b)).

At medium- and high-risk events the SAPS-led event safety and security planning committee must ensure prescribed measures are in place for (s23):

• safety and security
• health and medical services or facilities under the National Health Act
• deployment of private security
• emergency and essential services
• access and safety for persons with disabilities

The committee includes an emergency service provider, a health and medical service provider, the provincial health department and the municipal disaster management department or centre (s15(3)). It assigns tasks for emergency, essential services and event medical measures (s16(1)(c)) and sets measures for adequate access and accommodation for persons with disabilities (s16(1)(d)).

"Emergency services" in the Act means public and private medical services (including EMS and health services), the fire department, disaster management and municipal traffic or by-law enforcement (s1).

The venue operations centre (VOC) can be staffed by police, disaster management, private EMS, the fire department, health departments, traffic, private security, the controlling body, organiser, stadium owner, safety officer and volunteers, as the SAPS authorised member decides (s17(3)).