Ground Manager Update
October 29, 2011
From the very beginning Ground Manager was a product designed by
and for the Ground Safety Officer and Match Day Staff. Every
match-day the product contributes to providing a safe atmosphere.
Banned offenders often still attend games and the need to be able
to look at previous week's photographs in order to be able to
properly identify such offenders was raised as an issue. This
facility is now available within Ground Manager and would be very
difficult to manage without the system in place.
Sheffield Wednesday Football Club have been using Ground Manager
for over five years now. John Rutherford, Stadium Operations
Manager at Sheffield Wednesday, and the chairman of the Football
Safety Officers Association, has been utilising the risk assessment
facilities within the system to challenge police categorisation of
matches. This has brought about some key financial savings for
Sheffield Wednesday FC.
Part way through the season (2010-11) Ground Manager helped
Sheffield Wednesday FC save money in the following matches:
* Brighton & Hove Albion-£5,000 saved on policing
costs.
* Chesterfield-£6,000 saved on policing costs.
I have been using Ground Manager for five years and I can say
that in each year I have successfully used the match risk
assessment tool to challenge Police categorisation of matches
and I have been able to get match categories changed or police
staffing at the stadium and on the footprint reduced, resulting in
significant cost savings for the Club.
John Rutherford, Stadium Operations Manager at Sheffield
Wednesday FC
Nottingham Forest Football Club also praise the system and believe
that over the time they have been
using Ground Manager there has been an improvement in
behaviour amongst fans. This in turn has attracted more fans to the
ground and provided a more family friendly atmosphere.
Ground manager has enabled us to identify repeat offenders
and our view is that for every fan who is now subject to a ban we
probably get another 10 good people coming back.
Alan Bexon - Safety Officer (Safety & Security),
Nottingham Forest
For more information about Ground Manager or to request a
demonstration please contact Jon Gahagan on 0117 908 1484 or at j.gahagan@wpcsoft.com