Glastonbury Festival 2019

TESS has been the appointed safety contractor for Glastonbury Festival for over two decades.

Hannah Charlton was the company’s festival safety co-ordinator supported by Adam Blaxter and the wider TESS team.

There have been a huge amount of positive changes over the years and we make sure an enabling safety culture is interwoven into the creative fabric of Glastonbury Festival. With over 200,000 people on site the organisers are confident of public welfare thanks to precise plans and on site expertise.

TESS’ overarching responsibility in 2019 was providing strategic advice and information in advance and on the ground practicable implementation to permanent staff at the festival in the operations team and the area organisers. Alongside them, we are also liaising with agencies and providers of medical welfare and fire safety, creative and technical production teams, contractors, licensing authorities and the Civil Aviation Authority.

We produced and managed a whole suite of safety documentation and distributed the information to all the relevant stakeholders. We introduced a new online induction system and online reporting, vastly reducing paper use, while making it quicker for everyone and allowing us to capture the information we need.

“35
Special effects stage installations
500
Supplier risk assessments
79
Technical production compliance across all stages

Fire safety, medical, civil aviation, production contractors, licensing and build compliance
Across the entire festival.”