By Jana DeGeorge Verizon Arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas, was the latest venue to receive quality Situational Awareness and Trained Crowd Manager training from IAVM Director of Education/Life Safety Mark Herrera. COURSE OVERVIEW Situational Awareness: This course is designed to e

There’s still time to register for the Columbia (SC) Metropolitan Convention Center’s Emergency Preparedness and Risk Mitigation Safety Training on June 18. Maybe you’re still deciding, which is why we want to let you know FIVE reasons you should attend this summer&#

The Visit Anaheim Customer Advisory Board (CAB) in conjunction with the Anaheim Convention Center recently underwent situation awareness training under the guidance of IAVM Director of Education Mark Herrera. “This was a great group of industry leaders sharing best practices,

(First posted as a Walton Arts Center blog) Mark Herrera, IAVM director of education, and Paul Villotti, director of life safety for Henderson Engineers, came to Northwest Arkansas to lead Trained Crowd Management Phase 2 classes for staff at each of its venues, Walton Arts Center and

By Russ Simons, Mark Herrera, and Dr. Lou Marciani The recent events in Las Vegas have identified an area of public assembly facility event operations that involves technical production and event support personnel who need more direction, and we may not be providing all of the informa