The NCS⁴ Team Wishes You a Safe and Happy Holiday Season and a Wonderful New Year!

Please make plans and join us for one of our upcoming events listed below.

The 13th annual National Sports Safety and Security Conference & Exhibition will take place June 28-30, 2022, at the Omni Orlando Resort at Championsgate. The gathering of top safety and security professionals across multiple disciplines provides a versatile and intimate environment dedicated to innovative technologies, products, services, and educational programming. Please mark your calendar and make plans to join us! Additional details coming soon.

Registration is now open for attendees and returning sponsors and exhibitors. Click the button below for more information or to register.

All of the forum websites are live, and registration is open for attendees and sponsors. Select the forum you are interested in, and click the button beneath it for more information.

The virtual forum will focus on crowd management and cyber security strategies.

The virtual forum will focus on crowd management and cyber security strategies.

The virtual forum will focus on crowd management and cyber security strategies.

The virtual forum will focus on crowd management and de-escalation strategies.

ICYMI: NCS⁴ partners with DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) on Touchless Screening Annex

The Public Venue Security Screening Guide – Touchless Screening Annex offers best practices for non-contact screening procedures that stakeholders may implement in addition to the screening procedures outlined in the previously-released Public Venue Security Screening Guide. The Annex is intended for use at public venues hosting a variety of events, including sporting events, concerts, fairs and family festivals, conventions, theme parks, and other events or functions where Americans gather.

Now Scheduling Select DHS/FEMA-Funded Training Courses

The NCS⁴ is currently offering four safety and security courses in face-to-face format. Each course is designed to be interactive and allow individuals to become more confident in their ability to identify, prevent, and manage incidents. The key principles that individuals will learn range from risk management, evacuation messaging, threat prioritization, and communication. Each class is being presented in a face-to-face format that requires 8 hours each day for two consecutive days.

You can learn more about each of these courses by visiting the NCS⁴ website or by clicking on one of the following courses below:

• AWR-167: Sport Event Risk Management
• MGT-412: Sport Venue Evacuation and Protective Actions
• MGT-466: Sport and Special Event Enhanced Risk Management and Assessment
• MGT-467: Sport and Special Event Public Information and Emergency Notification

These courses represent a cooperative effort between The University of Southern Mississippi’s National Center for Spectator Sports Security and Safety (USM/NCS⁴) and the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service’s National Emergency Response and Recovery Training Center (TEEX/NERRTC), a member of The Texas A&M University System.

If you are interested in attending or hosting a training course, please email us at NCS4train@usm.edu.

Fundamentals of Crowd Safety Course Offered Online

NCS⁴ and GKStill International have partnered to jointly offer the Fundamentals of Crowd Safety online E-Learning course to address capability gaps in crowd behavior and sciences. Professor Dr. G. K. Still, Professor of Crowd Science at Manchester University, developed this certified, accredited course. The course offers an 8-hour online interactive experience designed to teach the essential elements of crowd safety and crowd risk analysis. The course is especially valuable to event organizers, as it ensures that those who complete it are compliant with the NFPA 101 - Life Safety Code — specifically, the areas of section 12 of the code that require a venue to provide a crowd manager trained in crowd management techniques for occupancies exceeding 1000.