Case Studies.
Find out why we’re so passionate about operations, people and safety.
Health and Safety: Savour
In July OPS ensured the safe delivery at our first ever food festival with the auditing an enabling 8 full scale restaurants to function on site with 120 traders, restaurants and bars on site.
Operations and Health & Safety: Mostly Jazz, Funk and Soul Festival
OPS has been working with Mostly Jazz, Funk and Soul Festival since this festival started, and we have developed a strong relationship as a result of our services. This year, we were therefore requested to again deliver licenses in advance of the event, before heading to Moseley Park to provide on-site event health & safety services at the festival.
Operations and Health & Safety: El Dorado Festival
In July 2023, OPS worked alongside our sister agency, festival production company The Fair to ensure the safe delivery of El Dorado Festival.
Health and Safety: RecFest
After a successful debut in 2022, RecFest returned to Knebworth Park in July 2023 for the world’s largest talent acquisition and HR event. OPS ensured the Health and Safety onsite and ensured the safe working of 130 sponsors in addition to 40 contractors, supplier and traders.
Health & Safety: Uzbek Culture and Food Festival
The OPS team was requested to provide a range of services to ensure London’s first ever Uzbek Culture and Food Festival could go be enjoyed by up to 6,000 guests in the centre of the capital.
Health & Safety: Casa Bacardi (Creation) at Parklife
Casa Bacardi is an activation by Creation designed and constructed on two levels using multiple, re- purposed shipping containers. A Safety Officer from OPS was on site to manage Casa Bacardi throughout the live hours of Parklife festival in Manchester.
Operations and Health & Safety: Gottwood
OPS returned to Gottwood for the sixth time in 2023 to ensure this critically acclaimed, independent and intimate underground electronic music festival could go ahead safely.
Health & Safety: Howard de Walden Summer Festival
The OPS team have been working with Howard de Walden Estate since 2016, providing operational and health & safety services enabling a wide range of events to go ahead.
Operations and Health & Safety: Summer Social
Summer Social returned to Richmond Athletic Ground and The Old Deer Park in June 2023, for a day of competition, music and fun at London's leading fitness and lifestyle festival.
Operations and Health & Safety: Boiler Room
OPS worked alongside our colleagues at our sister agency, festival production company The Fair, to ensure the safe delivery of Boiler Room Burgess Park.
Operations and Health & Safety: NTS Radio Festival
We worked alongside our colleagues at sister agency and production company, The Fair, to ensure the safe delivery of the first ever NTS festival, ‘One Day’ at Burgess Park.
Operations and Health & Safety: In It Together
Having worked with Climax across their portfolio of festivals (Escape, Party At The Park and Inside Out) since 2019, and supporting In It Together in its first year in 2022, OPS was requested to provide H&S and Licensing services again at the event this year.
Operations and Health & Safety: GALA
GALA is a community focused independent South London Festival going on its seventh year. This year OPS assisted with both operations and health & safety.
Operations and Health & Safety: Mayfair Coronation Garden Party
OPS worked with longstanding client, to safely deliver one of London’s most-talked-about Coronation celebrations.
Operations and Health & Safety: Grosvenor
The Fair’s Health & Safety Team (now OPS) have been Event Safety Risk Management Consultants for Grosvenor Property UK since 2016 - providing a huge range of services to enable Grosvenor to host hundreds of events.
Health and Safety: Christmas Installation in Porto Nuova, Milan
OPS ventured abroad to provide on site safety support for a Christmas installation in Milan, Italy. We worked alongside our colleagues from We Are Placemaking, ensuring the safe delivery of the event in one of the Italian capital’s most vibrant business districts.
Health and Safety: Mount Street Christmas Lights
OPS have been working with Grosvenor since 2016 to help them deliver their broad range of events safely. The annual Mount Street Christmas Lights Switch-on event is a highlight of the calendar.
Health and Safety: Merry Marylebone
For Christmas 2022, OPS supported We Are Placemaking, in addition to the Howard de Walden Estate, to safely deliver the annual light switch on event, Merry Marylebone.
Operations and Health & Safety: Eastern Electrics & Maiden Voyage Festivals
OPS have been working alongside colleagues at The Fair to ensure the safe delivery of these two festivals for many years now - supporting them to grow to an audience of 15,000 people and secure a permanent home at Lee Valley Showground.
Operations and Health & Safety: Otherlands Festival
Edinburgh promoter Fly had long held aspirations to host a multi-day camping festival, Otherlands, to complement their existing portfolio of shows and events. They approached We Are The Fair and OPS to assist with venue feasibility and decided to go host on a historic site, Scone Palace.