Showsec continues to ensure the safety of audiences and artists from small club gigs to the largest world tours and all sizes and types of festivals. Our consistently reliable and evolving security services have made our company a trusted supply partner to many international and national promoters, festivals, arenas, concert halls, academies, football stadiums, tours, one-off concerts, city councils, universities and artist management.

Our extensive experience ensures all personnel have comprehensive knowledge of the demands of live event security on every level, with the safety of everyone on site a primary consideration. 

Using an extensive research database of artists, events and audience behaviour, we effectively identify and understand the demographics, allowing us to thoroughly plan security and crowd management for varied events. We tailor our approach and service accordingly, using our booking department to deploy staff with the most appropriate skills and expertise, seamlessly integrating our services within the client’s organisation. We can then implement a security operation to suit each event from family friendly festivals to rock, pop, dance and cultural festivals.

This allows organisers to host their brand particular event with the knowledge that across the UK, audiences continue to enjoy their favourite bands in a safe and professionally managed environment.

The services the specialist teams offer include consultation to guide organisers through successful licensing applications, preliminary site planning and barrier system designs. This leads into the provision of full on-site security management in carefully structured teams, often running into hundreds of Showsec SIA licensed security professionals, artist liaison and backstage teams, pit teams, front-of-house security and stewarding.

The core of the live music and entertainment sector is based around the venue market place, with over 450 venues serviced nationwide, our expertise sets us apart in this dynamic and competitive market place.

We continue to set high standards in the field of venue security, providing a holistic service that meets the aspirations and ethos of the venue operator whilst forging relationships to become part of the operational fabric of the building.

Showsec operates with local core staff base that benefit from the national network of resources and expertise. The company provides a tailored security service to each venue within its service partnership portfolio from the Mama Group, to O2 Academies, MEN, Wembley and SMG operated arenas to stand alone operations such as Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, Nottingham Trent FM Arena and the Roundhouse.

For more detail on the sporting and conference venues please click through to their pages.

Showsec provides bespoke crowd management solutions to a vast array of live events. There are a wide range of challenges that potentially arise and we ensure thorough contingency planning and robust operational capabilities are implemented when considering people’s safety at events spanning the political, cultural, celebratory and state events.

Showsec has considerable experience planning and managing security for free un-ticketed events. Many of these annual events move location, have very differing artist line-ups and include other factors adding to the unpredictability of the audience size or demographic, all of which place a high level of responsibility to research all elements and prepare comprehensive plans. 

The highest standards of research and planning techniques are shared by all Showsec managers to provide a national network of unparalleled expertise with trained staff from local offices to meet all client aspirations.
 
Our highly renowned services also include the successful implementation of emergency service liaison, ingress and egress, pit team requirements as well as providing a consultancy service for licence applications and health and safety support services. From writing risk assessments, method statements, contingency planning, consultancy and operational planning to the provision of skilled operational management teams, security and stewarding personnel, we will work with you to decide on the scope of service required for your event.

Showsec’s event security expertise extends to international promoters, sporting bodies, corporate brands and event organisers, who utilise our services to enhance their security at events all around the world. 

Our specialist teams often cross international borders, such as our close protection professionals or artist protection teams securing international touring music artists or corporate brands looking to maintain high international security standards across international boundaries.

Showsec managers communicate with international contemporaries and trade bodies to continuously update techniques, stay abreast of trends, discuss potential areas for concern and amend procedures to achieve best working practices in all locations and cultural backgrounds. Co-operation with our sister company in the Netherlands, The Security Company, further enables us to share pan-European operational and training techniques.

We are engaged to act as security management consultants for a multitude of international events, including ongoing long-term projects such as the MTV European Music Awards, Lowland’s Festival security operations in Holland, B’estfest in Romania and Desert Rocks in Dubai.

Showsec supply a full spectrum of event and venue security to a host of sporting genres.  From football and boxing to horseracing and motorsport, we ensure the security of the participants, media, venue assets and the safety of the demographically diverse audiences in attendance at each event.

Sports venues and events present complex areas with individual and constantly changing requirements. We tailor our services and provide appropriately experienced and qualified staff in order to meet the array of demands for these spectator demographics and the relative sporting bodies.

Showsec has excelled in delivering a defined product for the football sector, keeping in mind the important needs of supporters, the club and players. Our security services are constantly evolving to match the requirements from stewards to VIP and personal close protection teams. These specialist security teams operate in the modern celebrity environment of many of today’s sports stars and high profile owners and corporate guests attending.

We have shaped our services to deliver high customer care in a safe, secure environment whilst also meeting the high expectations from the club’s customers; with legislative training requirements being both met and surpassed.    

We have experience of mass broadcast multi site global sporting events, planning a security and stewarding operation involving several thousand employees and volunteers over many weeks. Planning the operation with the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, the local authority, police and other emergency services, we developed extensive understanding of sporting event security, budgetary controls and asset protection. Our staff were the public face of the competition, offering a friendly, efficient welcome to international visitors whether they were athletes, VIPs, officials or members of the audience.

Through Showsec’s consultancy services decades of experience and knowledge is made available to clients organising complex one off events or reviewing existing security procedures.

From the early planning stages, through licensing application, compiling risk assessments to drawing up crowd management and security plans our managers are diligent in listening to clients to deliver the safest, cost effective solutions. On event days we can supply specialist security professionals, senior management teams, supervisors and SIA licensed staff as required, from a complete team or integrated into a wider team.

Showsec’s detailed and in-depth crowd management and security consultancy provides a flexible, relevant product that reflects the needs of the client, the audience and the event’s structure.

Contact Showsec’s management team to find out how they can advise on a wide spectrum of operational requirements. International events of all types have benefitted from our consultancy services, whilst in the UK clients range from small security sensitive events such as VIP launch parties or venues hosting events out of their normal scope to televised award ceremonies, cultural festivals, and international sporting occasions.

Showsec understands the diverse and evolving needs of our corporate clients and we have established proficiency in the field of close protection, within the corporate, music and sporting sectors. From the celebrity status of artists and players to The Pope, Showsec has a diverse portfolio.

Our national and international close protection coverage ranges from consultancy, singular person coverage to a full close protection detail including residential security. We accommodate individual celebrity appearance security, secure artist’s tours and protect the venues in which they operate, with unobtrusive or as high profile service as the client demands.

All our SIA close protection licensed operatives are fully trained with an extensive operational history, with acceptance into the operating pool approved only by a company director. We continually invest in training for all our security personnel who are selected on the merits of complying with legislative requirements, articulacy, presentation skills and attributes.

Conference security demands are a delicate balance of specialist skills, with attention focusing on the individual ethos, style and security requirements of each client and venue.

Showsec’s confident and engaging strategically based management teams understand these needs and aim to deliver the highest standards of conference security. The professional and smart presentation of our staff is appropriate for the settings of any conference, whilst our bespoke services achieve a desired atmosphere.  

We are equipped to deliver services on local, national and international levels; providing qualified security professionals who have been diligently selected and matched to each event by in-house administrative and quality procedures.

Client’s who benefit from the many, individual services Showsec offer include; Earls Court, Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, Southport Conference Centre and the International Live Music Conference and the Live UK Summit. 

Showsec provides a seamless extension of additional specialist services, such as Close Protection, Event Planning and Health and Safety Consultancy, enabling clients to obtain their specialists needs from one supplier.
 

Showsec is establishing a successful reputation within the exhibition security market. Our experience and flexible approach entwined with a strong, customer focused service ethos is well suited fit serving the needs of this sector.

We fully understand that a fusion of asset protection and the management of exhibitor and visitor footfall is key to exhibition organisers. Crucially, Showsec realise that knowledgeable, approachable security staff are imperative to paying patrons, ensuring they get the most from the exhibition experience.

Safety and security take precedence and the transferable skills our security personnel hold including vigilance, procedural awareness and a high degree of customer interaction, ensures a high standard of exhibition security in both temporary and permanent structures.

We manage complex security operations at a diverse selection of exhibitions, from the six month Dr Who exhibition to the one off Garden Party to Make a Difference, based in Prince Charles’ personal residence, Clarence House. 

Pictured: Showsec at Garden Party to Make a Different, Clarence House.

And the winner is . . .

 . . . the organisers, attendees and participants of the many awards ceremonies that  have benefitted from Showsecs specialist award management and operations teams.

In recent years we have built longstanding relationships with high profile awards, including the international MTV Europe Music Awards, the LIVE UK Event Awards, the TPi Awards, BBC Sports Personality of the Year and the World Music Awards.

Maintaining the occasion of celebration, our awards security combines a range of skill-sets to successfully fulfil the varied complexities involved within award ceremonies.

We seamlessly integrate security services into the event, sometimes highly visible, sometimes very discreet, which adhere to clients sensitive and individual needs. Awards combine multiple security functions ensuring the safety of celebrities, VIP guests, high spirited audiences and the assets of the event and venue.  Detailed advance planning is essential, combined with a high degree of flexibility for the inevitable changes that crop up, from the red carpet arrivals, through to high energy ceremonies, extended acceptance speeches to ‘hot-ticket’ after-parties.

Working with multi-platform media companies, in particular the live broadcasting element which often is an important element of these occasions, we are trusted to manage the sensitive security requirements that arise at the unique circumstances that combine at awards. 

Showsec’s expertise is internationally transferable, with the management consultancy team embedding themselves in the organisers’ production any where in the world. We provide customised security plans for each awards event, accounting for cultural differences and specific traditions, along with delivering training to our local partners.

Showsec’s specialist health and safety department embodies an ongoing commitment to embed a constant awareness of health and safety within the culture of the company. We take our delivery of health and safety obligations across the live event industry very seriously, mindful of our dual responsibility to create a safe working environment for our staff, whilst also supporting clients to ensure high standards of public health and safety.

Our specialist health and safety department works with reputable specialists X-Venture to create and deliver industry specific qualifications. These courses are available for our full time staff and clients, qualifying event professionals to create and act upon risk assessments, contingency plans and promote positive safe culture within a working environment through the implementation of best working practise.

We support our clients with a concise consultancy service that covers an array of public health and safety elements, including; licensing applications, risk assessments, and health & safety audits. We regularly engage clients, local authorities, commercial organisations and emergency services, to diligently help our event organisers and venue owners have peace of mind that they have fulfilled their duty of care. 

For further information on the range of health and safety consultancy services we offer, please feel free to contact us via email at safety@showsec.co.uk

Showsec plays an integral part in the diligent risk management preparation process for many kinds of events. Our commitment to constantly improve the safety at events and venues includes the provision of comprehensive and detailed risk assessments, underpinned by the range of expertise and experience within the company.

We work closely with event and venue managers to write bespoke, thorough risk assessments which consider all salient factors such as the type of event, audience profile, artist profile, venue facilities, topography, local transport and volume of visitors.

Our services lead on to reviews of existing practices to achieve best modern standards of safety and often extend to include contingency planning or the provision of safety officers. 

By identifying the hazards and providing the solutions (and in many instances the means to implement the solutions) we not only improve the safety but also eliminate the exposure to future legal financial claims.