Event Operations & Risk Management

Catalog description

This advanced course enables students to gain competence in the specific risk management, risk operations, risk assessment, planning and evaluative techniques used by professional event leaders to mitigate risk proactively. Students gain knowledge in risk management, risk operations, risk assessment, avoidance, planning and control of risk associated with events, and explore methods for eliminating, reducing and transferring these risks to improve the successful outcomes of their events. Students gain proficiency in assessing risk operations, understanding the liabilities of conducting an event, contract law, contractual responsibilities in planning and implementing an event, either for one's own organization, or acting as an agent on a fee-for-service basis.