Safety Advisory Group
The Safety Advisory Group (SAG) is a multi-agency partnership, currently chaired by our Emergency Planning team, that promotes good practice in safety, managing risk, and welfare planning for events.
The group supports event organisers by providing appropriate advice and guidance in order to ensure events cause minimal adverse impact to the community.
The SAG does not have legal powers and is not empowered to approve or prohibit an event from taking place, although individual organisations will have powers to require event organisers to comply with their legal obligations.
The SAG’s role is to provide independent advice to event organisers, who retain legal responsibility for ensuring a safe event. It is the responsibility of the event organiser to ensure that they are aware of and comply with all the legislation relevant to the activities being undertaken.
Further information on event planning can be found on our website.