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Hull contractor reveals they were behind main stage safety at Glastonbury Festival

Hull-based company SHE Knows Health & Safety has revealed that it was contracted to provide all health and safety risk assessments on one of the show stopping main stages throughout Glastonbury Festival.

The Arcadia Spectacular was a giant alien-like spider, which seemed to have landed in the middle of the Wiltshire countryside – complete with lasers, pyrotechnics, aerial performers, rave music and DJs in the head of the spider.

SHE Knows was responsible for ongoing health and safety risk assessments including helping to test all of the lasers and pyrotechnics, with a mixture of international contractors and artists, while liaising with the festival’s own health and safety team.

Linda Crossland-Clarke, managing director at SHE Knows Health & Safety said: “It wasn’t our everyday sort of job, really, it was full on and hectic as we pretty much had to be on site for 18 hours a day making sure that everything was in order.

“The contractors are all highly skilled but with international crews there is always the danger that people don’t talk to each other and things don’t get done that need to be.

“We didn’t get much time to go autograph hunting, that’s for sure.”

This is the latest contract for the health and safety specialist, which has also recently won work with Weetabix for its expanding Mission Room side of the business.

The company has also provided health and safety awareness training at Bridlington Spa as part of a council health and safety awareness week for all personnel, including site managers and training managers.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Clare Burnett .