This comprehensive publication brings together the background information central to designing and providing for disabled spectators at stadia.
It lays out clearly the requirements and...
The SGSA publishes a range of guidance documents to assist ground management to safely manage their venues and to provide advice to local authorities involved in the safety certification of those sports grounds. A number of these guides can be downloaded from this site, whilst others can be purchased from this website or directly from the SGSA.
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This comprehensive publication brings together the background information central to designing and providing for disabled spectators at stadia.
It lays out clearly the requirements and...
Accessible Stadia Supplementary Guidance provides an update to the 2003 Accessible...
Alternative Uses provides much needed guidance to stadium owners, operators, local authorities, promoters and event organisers to help adapt existing sports grounds to safely accommodate a range...
The Sports Grounds Safety Authority’s Annual Report and Accounts, spanning the full 2016/17 financial year Authority (SGSA) is now available. The Report sets out how we operate, covering our goals...
This code of practice replaces one first issued in 2000. Since then there have been advances in the way CCTV is used, the technology employed and the wider legal environment in which it operates....
Following the Grenfell Tower tragedy on 14 June, we have received a growing number of requests to provide some specific guidance for the sports grounds sector.
This guidance is for those...
This document provides further guidance on the matters to be considered when concessionaire and other allied services are provided at sports grounds.The guidance covers catering and hospitality;...
Concourses draws upon the views and experience of safety officers, leading stadia architects and engineers in addition to the survey work of the Core Cities group of local authorities. It...
Control Rooms provides an invaluable source of information for sports ground managers, designers, safety advisors and agencies involved in the upgrading of an existing facility or the design of a...
The purpose of this Notice is to remind Chief Executives of their powers and responsibilities under section 10 of the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975, which allows local authorities to issue...
Design-Build is a method of building procurement which originated in the 1950s. It was promoted by contractors as an alternative to the traditional UK method.With 'traditional' method the...
Dynamic performance requirements for permanent grandstands subject to crowd action - Interim guidance on assessment and design.The principal advice given in the Guidance concerns the recommended...
This Advisory Note was produced by a joint working group of the Institution of Structural Engineers, the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and the Department for Culture...
The primary means of unlocking electronically controlled gates is by means of a switch/ button in the stadium control room. This is designed to be supplemented by a "fail safe" system whereby any...
The wider understanding of safety in relation to the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 and Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 has led to a review of working practices and...
The wider understanding of safety in relation to the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 and Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 has led to a review of working practices and...
The publication provides a comprehensive bibliography of football stadia references. The study of football stadia covers a wide number of disciplines, and often finds common ground with related...
This Guide is intended to provide a unified approach to the issue of safety certificates, principally in relation to designated sports grounds. The aim is to ensure that reasonable safety is...
This document provides detailed advice on electrical and mechanical services at sports grounds for Certifying Authorities and for those responsible for crowd safety at sporting events. The...
This document provides further guidance on the matters to be considered when "during performance" Local Authorities, to assess the holder's ability to comply with the terms and conditions of the...
The Sports Grounds Safety Authority's predecessor, the Football Licensing Authority, was commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to produce the fifth edition of the Guide to...
The aim of this document is to give Certifying Authorities guidance on how to ensure that reasonable standards of public safety can be maintained whilst construction operations are in progress....
This circular introduces the first designation order made under the provisions of the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 and provides guidance on the procedure regarding applications for general...
This circular provides guidance on the procedure regarding the application for a special safety certificate.
This circular introduces the provisions of Part IV of the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987
This circular summarises the recommendations made by the Committee of Inquiry into Crowd Safety and Control at Sports Grounds in its final report.
This circular summarises the recommendations made by the Committee of Inquiry into Crowd Safety and Control at Sports Grounds in its interim report.
This circular explains the changes to the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 brought about by the Local Government Act 1985
This circular introduces the provisions of Part II of the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 which amended the Safety of Sports Ground Act 1975.
This circular introduces Statutory Guidance given by the Secretary of State on inspections of designated sports grounds under section 10B of the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 (the 1975 Act) as...
This circular, together with annexes A - D, introduces the provisions of Part III of the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 (the 1987 Act) and the Safety of Places of Sport...
This circular introduces (a) Statutory Guidance under section 26 (8) of the 1987 Act to local authorities in discharging their function of determining whether a stand at a sports ground is a "...
This circular introduces the provisions of the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975
The wider understanding of safety in relation to the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 and Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 has led to a review of working practices and...
A summary of the first ever comprehensive survey of disabled supporters, conducted jointly by the FSADC and the Sir Norman Chester Centre for football Research. A second publication, "Designing...
This guidance note has been developed by the SGSA in partnership with NaCTSO to provide more specific guidance for the sports grounds sector.
It provides points ground /event management...
This guidance note has been developed by the SGSA in partnership with NaCTSO to provide more specific guidance for sports grounds management in relation to the development of ingress and egress...
This guidance note has been developed by the SGSA in partnership with NaCTSO to provide more specific guidance for sports grounds management in relation to the development of plans to move people...
Pre-Match and Half-Time Entertainment at Football Grounds - (extracts from a letter to certifying authorities dated 23rd February 2004)
The Football Licensing Authority has...
The wider understanding of safety in relation to the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 and Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 has led to a review of working practices and...
The wider understanding of safety in relation to the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 and Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 has led to a review of working practices and...
In February 2011 the Sports Grounds Safety Authority (SGSA) issued guidance to clubs on the safe handling and storage of flares and pyrotechnic devices. Since then the number of devices...
In February 2017, the SGSA issued a consultation that sought the views of stakeholders on:
Following the terrorist incidents in France that took place in 2015, the UK National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) has been reviewing its advice. The SGSA has been working with NaCTSO...
The wider understanding of safety in relation to the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 and Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 has led to a review of working practices and...
The wider understanding of safety in relation to the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 and Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 has led to a review of working practices and...
This guidance updates and supersedes the guidance on safety certification issued by the Football Licensing Authority (FLA) in 2001. Although it is specifically addressed to local authorities...
This guidance note describes the interactions between the different legislation in this area and the impacts on the safety management of a sports ground thereby protecting all those present,...
Guidance is available from the Sports Grounds Safety Authority (SGSA) on the responsibilities of sports grounds for ensuring...
Safety management at sports grounds has steadily become more sophisticated and more professional over the past twenty years. “Safety Management” the latest publication in the SGSA’s...
"Seating" seeks to guide clubs, architects and other interested parties through the basics of the three main aspects of the subject:
The SGSA has published its new five year strategy which sets out its vision and explains how it will share its expertise for the benefit of more spectators and more sports around the world.
...Public address systems are required for a number of purposes:
Construction of a new covered stand is one of the clearest statements a club can make about itself and its relationship with the community. A grandstand roof is often the most dominant structure...
This paper we examines the nature and causes of spectators standing in seated areas at Premier and Football League grounds. We conclude that this is unacceptable from the point of view not merely...
This fourth edition (2017) contains essential information on the procurement, design, erection and use of temporary demountable structures, including: grandstands; stages; fabric structures;...
The advice contained in this guidance document is aimed at clubs seeking to replace or upgrade existing terraces. Detailed advice is given to ensure the provision of adequate sightlines as well as...
The provision of modern, well equipped, well designed and well maintained toilets is not merely a design issue. It has a direct effect on the way spectators will behave. At a time when the general...