Paul Wertheimer Principal Crowd Management Strategies Paul Wertheimer is the founder and head of Crowd Management Strategies, a Los Angeles-based international crowd safety consulting service with a specialty in concert and festival safety issues. "Safety crusader at the forefront." USA TODAY He has participated in the development and passage of safety legislation, standards and guidance in the US, England, Denmark, South Africa and Australia. This includes contributing to the British government's 1999 Event Safety Guide; the Danish government's safety report following the 2000 Roskilde Festival tragedy; South Africa's official event safety guide; and providing the model for a new level of safety for concert moshing environments in Australia. "Crowd safety expert." Court TV Paul has spoken on the subject of crowd management before a wide range of audiences, including (Requires Adobe Acrobat's FREE Reader): the British Cabinet Office Emergency Planning College; the Fourth World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control; the National Fire Protection Association; the Danish Working Group to Study the Safety Aspects of Music Festivals (He was the only crowd safety expert outside of Denmark invited to appear before the group); First International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security; First International Conference on Engineering for Crowd Safety; the International Association of Assembly Managers; the International Conference on Police Aspects of Crowd Safety; and the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions. "Foremost industry expert on the topic of crowd crushing." Worst-Case Scenario, TV In 2003, Paul was the only crowd safety expert invited to speak before Rhode Island's special legislative safety commission following the Great White concert disaster. He was also the sole crowd safety expert invited to speak before Chicago's E2 nightclub tragedy safety panel . A number of Paul's recommendations were accepted by both groups. Paul has served as assistant executive director and assistant general manager for the Lexington, Kentucky, facility management firm overseeing the Lexington Center complex: 23,400-seat Adolph Rupp Arena, Heritage Hall convention center, Opera House, shopping mall and Triangle Park. "Rock's Ralph Nader." The Indianapolis Star Paul has served as assistant executive director and assistant general manager for the Lexington, Kentucky, facility management firm overseeing the Lexington Center complex: 23,400-seat Adolph Rupp Arena, Heritage Hall convention center, Opera House, shopping mall and Triangle Park. The 1979 Who concert tragedy in Cincinnati, Ohio, was the incident that started Paul on his crowd management career. He served as the chief of staff for The Task Force on Crowd Control and Safety established in the aftermath of The Who concert disaster. He subsequently wrote the Task Force's landmark Crowd Management: The Report of the Task Force on Crowd Control and Safety. "The marshal of the mosh pit." The Washington Post Paul is a member of the National Fire Protection Association's Life Safety Technical Committee on Assembly Occupancies and Membrane Structures and a liaison member of the South African Bureau of Standards Technical Committee on Health and Safety at Live Events. He also regularly attends concerts, festivals and other public assembly events. In the area of litigation, Paul has qualified as a crowd safety expert in US federal court and in English courts. He has been involved in more concert crowd safety litigation cases than anyone else in the world. His opinions have helped change the dynamics of event crowd safety litigation. Contact: Paul Wertheimer Principal Crowd Management Strategies 12021 Wilshire Blvd, #792 Los Angeles, California 90025-1206 United States of America Voice: 310-402-1771 Email: paul@crowdsafe.com

In The News  (Back To Top) For more than a decade, Crowd Management Strategy/Crowdsafe.com and founder Paul Wertheimer have been quoted in the media more than any other source on the topics of crowd management and concert safety. These opportunities have allowed Crowd Management Strategies to reach an audience of millions with accurate information and reasonable solutions for making concerts and other public assembly events safer. Television ABC 20/20 ABC Good Morning America ABC News ABC News affiliates American Journal Animal Planet BBC News (United Kingdom) CBC News (Canada) CBS Early Show CBS Evening News with Dan Rather CBS News affiliates CLTV News CNBC America After Hours CNN CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports Court-TV CTV News (Canada Day & Date Discovery Channel: "The Disaster Files" Donahue FOX News Channel FNC Fox & Friends FNC Hannity and Colmes FOX News affiliates Inside Edition, Caught In The Crush KTTV News Leeza MSNBC News MSNBC with Soledad O'Brien MTV News National Geographic Channel "Swarms" NBC News affiliates NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw NBC Today Show Save Our Streets Talk TV (Canada) TV4 (Denmark) VH1 Confidential: Mosh Pit Mayhem VH1 Rock Story: Concerts Gone Bad VH1: Terror in the Front Row WBBM-TV News WCPO-TV News WFLD-TV News WGN-TV News WHDH-TV News WLS-TV News WMAR-TV News Worst-Case Scenario WRGB-TV News WTTW-11 Chicago Tonight WWOR-TV News Wire Services Associated Press Bloomberg News Network CBC (Canada) CBS News Network Copley Gannett News Service German Media Services Knight-Ridder Newspapers New York Times News Service Reuters (United Kingdom) Ritzau (Denmark) Scripps Howard News Service United Features Syndicate United Press International Westwood 1 Radio BBC Radio 1 (United Kingdom) CHEZ (Canada) DBC (Denmark) KFRU KINK KISW KPIX KSLR KTSA National Public Radio, All Things Considered, Concert violence OPB Radio Ireland (Ireland) RTE (Ireland), U2 and festival seating Sony Radio Network Triple J Radio (Australia) Voice of America WBBM WBEZ WHCN WKRC WLTL WLW WXYT XM Newspapers Seattle Times, Mosh pit safety Aftonbladet (Sweden) Albuquerque Journal Berlingske Tidende (Denmark) Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The BT (Denmark) Chicago Jewish Star Chicago Reader Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor Cincinnati Enquirer, The Columbus Dispatch Courier News, The Courier-Post Daily Bulletin Daily Herald Daily New Hamsphire Gazette Daily Southtown Daily Telegraph, The (Australia) Des Moines Register Detroit Free Press Detroit News, The Detroit News-Tribune Fort Worth Star-Telegram Forum, The Gazette, The Hamilton Spectator (Canada) Hartford Courant, The Honolulu Advertiser Houston Chronicle Indianapolis Star, The Inquirer, The International Herald Tribune (France) Jyllands-Posten (Denmark) Los Angeles Times, The Mesa Tribune Metro (Sweden) Middletown Journal, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel New Federalist, The New York Times, The News Sentinel, The Newsday Orange County Register, The Oregonian, The Palm Beach, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Politiken (Denmark) Post-Dispatch, The Press of Atlantic City Providence Journal, The Richmond Times-Dispatch Rockland Journal-News Sacramento Bee Seattle Post-Intelligencer South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) Standard Examiner State News, The State-Journal, The State-Register Sun, The Sun-Sentinel Sun-Tribune (South Africa) Syracuse Newspapers, The USA Today, special section on concert safety issues Times Union Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Wisconsin State Journal Magazines Chicago CosmoGirl Cosmopolitan Crain's Chicago Business Family Circle Gaffa (Denmark) Girls Life Illinois PTA Bulletin Juice (Australia) Maxim Men's Fitness Men’s Health NME (United Kingdom) People Q (United Kingdom) Rolling Stone Seventeen Source, The Spin Sports Illustrated Teen Teen People US News & World Report Industry Media Advance for Physical Therapists Amusement Business Audience (United Kingdom) CMJ New Music Report Corporate Security Emergency Medical Services Emergency Medicine News Event Organiser (United Kingdom) Hit Sheet IAAM Crowd Management Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police Community Policing Law Enforcement Quarterly Michigan Fire Service News NACA Campus Activities Programming NFPA Journal Performance Pollstar Pro Audio Review Special Events Books Engineering For Crowd Safety (J.F. Dickie PhD, editor; Elsevier) Mosh Pit Culture (Joe Ambrose; Ominibus Press) Are The Kids All Right? (John G. Fuller; Times Books/NYT) The Who concert tragedy AC-DC concert tragedy Woodstock Festival, 1994 Other articles: USA TODAY, August 2000 Concertgoers push injuries to high level USA TODAY, August 2000 From the start, violence follows the beat