Essential Crowd Safety Tips for Festival Season

As festival and concert seasons approach, a recent public service announcement highlights crucial crowd safety measures. The video, shared by an individual, draws attention to the dynamics of dense crowds, explaining that when a crowd reaches a density of more than five people per square meter, it begins to behave like a liquid rather than a solid. The speaker advises attendees to adopt a specific posture in extremely dense crowds: bending knees and crossing arms over the chest. This technique is recommended to protect vital organs like the heart, rib cage, and lungs, and to create a small pocket of space. It is emphasized that in such conditions, individuals are no longer supporting their own body weight, but are instead supported by the surrounding crowd. Furthermore, the video stresses the importance of moving with the crowd's flow rather than attempting to push against it, as resisting the movement can lead to falls and a cascade effect where multiple people may go down. If a fall occurs, the advice is to immediately protect one's head and scream loudly to alert others. The overarching message is to remain calm, stay in place, protect vital organs, and wait for the crowd to naturally disperse.

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