As visitors return this summer to the events they know and love, they also want to be assured that their experiences can be remembered fondly.

The safety of staff, volunteers and attendees should be at the forefront of your event planning. These days, that includes reassuring confidence post COVID-19.

Risk management for events should include practices for reducing exposure and preventing transmission of viruses. As a bonus, those practices can often also address risks in other areas, such as foodborne illnesses, sanitation concerns and environmental stewardship.

Risk Management for Your Event, one of seven modules in Tourism Saskatchewan's Organizing Special Events online course, provides the steps that event planners can use to develop risk management plans and emergency management plans. The course includes real-life examples and helpful templates.

Risk Management for Your Event topics: 

• Identify potential risks for an event
• Analyze risks by severity and likelihood
• Describe risk management techniques
• Develop a Risk Management Plan
• Evaluate the effectiveness of a Risk Management Plan

Based on emerit National Occupational Standards, and developed with the help of nationally certified event professionals, this introductory course takes you step-by-step through all the pieces you need to have in place to create an effective business plan for your event. It also includes your own copy of the Special Events Tool Kit that contains customizable forms and templates to help you plan.

Other modules in the course include:

• Getting Your Event Off the Ground
• Marketing and Promoting Your Event
• Fundraising for Your Event
• Event Logistics
• HR Management for Your Event
• Financial Management for Your Event

Register for Organizing Special Events to get the advice and tools you need to make your event a success this summer.