Purpose

Between 2020 and spring 2022, health safety was the new pressing concern among the risks at major events. It seemed that it – respectively hygiene as part of infection control – was as important as event safety if an event in Germany was to be approved. Problems aroused in terms of an equal implementation in practice. This article therefore addresses how safety and hygiene aspects interacted during event planning and implementation phases.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors draw on qualitative data from a German research project. They use results from eleven semi-structured expert interviews and four field observations at major events. One guiding assumption in the content analysis is that there are major interrelations between event and health safety concepts, which become visible during planning and the implementation of event-related technical, organisational and personal measures.

Findings

The empirical data shows that hygiene is not perceived as an integral part of event safety, but rather as a disconnected pillar beside the “classical” event safety. This is reflected in an imbalanced attention as well as in separate, disintegrated concepts. This disconnectedness leaves room for unwanted interplays between event and health safety as well as potential legitimacy facades.

Originality/value

Most studies to date focus on the effectiveness of hygiene concepts and impacts of COVID-19 on the event sector in general without taking a closer look at interactions between event safety and health safety.

中文翻译：

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什么才重要，安全和保障还是卫生？关于在德国大流行情况下重新开放重大活动的建议

目的

2020年至2022年春季，健康安全成为重大赛事风险中新的紧迫问题。如果要批准在德国举行的活动，那么卫生——分别作为感染控制的一部分——似乎与活动安全同样重要。平等执行在实践中出现的问题。因此，本文讨论了安全和卫生方面在活动规划和实施阶段如何相互作用。

设计/方法/途径

作者利用了德国研究项目的定性数据。他们使用了 11 次半结构化专家访谈和 4 次重大事件实地观察的结果。内容分析中的一个指导性假设是，事件与健康安全概念之间存在重要的相互关系，这在计划和实施与事件相关的技术、组织和个人措施期间变得显而易见。

发现

经验数据表明，卫生并未被视为活动安全不可或缺的一部分，而是被视为“传统”活动安全之外的一个孤立的支柱。这反映在不平衡的注意力以及分离的、分裂的概念上。这种不连贯性为事件和健康安全以及潜在的合法性表皮之间不必要的相互作用留下了空间。

原创性/价值

迄今为止，大多数研究都侧重于卫生概念的有效性和 COVID-19 对活动部门的总体影响，而没有仔细研究活动安全与健康安全之间的相互作用。