In the music industry there are many issues involved that are to be taken into account. There have been many accidents during performances from famous bands because of the lack of health an safety, one accident that springs to mind was a performance of Fade To Black by Metallica in Montreal in 1992, when the intro solo was being played by Kirk Hammett, frontman James Hetfield stepped into a coloured flame which was 12ft high and burning at 3200 degrees. On the Metallica wiki it states that the pyro technics only told the band that there was going to be on the outside wings of the stage, it was later revealed that the pyrotechnics failed to inform the band that this was in addition to the pyro that was already in place leading up to the accident.
http://metallica.wikia.com/wiki/Montreal_1992
But in terms of health and safety now days in the music industry, it is crucial that these rules of health and safety are put in place to prevent accidents like the 1992 Montreal accident happening again. A few examples of health and safety range from access and exits to crowd management. Here are a few examples of health and safety used in the music industry.
Access and Exits:
At any venue there must always be accesses and exits to let a large number of crowds enter and exit a venue, in any type of venue there also must be emergency exits for people or crowds to leave a venue in case of an emergency, an example of uses of an emergency exit would be the Manchester bombing at the Ariana Grande concert on the 22nd of may 2017, the incident resulted in 119 people being injured and 22 people dead including the bomber himself, if it weren't for emergency exits then the incident would be much worse.
Secondly in terms of Access and exits traffic would be involved due to it being planned on how the audience's transport and the performers transport would work so there are no problems and the same applies for exits, so how the performers and audience would leave with no problems.
Noise:
The hearing for both the performers and audience is taken into consideration, in any rehearsal the noise level is adjusted to be suitable for both the audience and performers because the higher the volume is the greater the risk is to the hearing of everyone of the venue. A lot of musicians or anyone else in the music industry suffer from tinnitus (a condition that results in someone hearing a sound that is not caused from an external source), so in terms of someone suffering from tinnitus they would start to hear humming, whistling and buzzing sounds.
Crowd management:
Crowd management in any venue is monitored so that the event organiser knows how many people are arriving to his or hers venue and who is in charge of dealing with the crowds, thats why in many performances you see security guards right at the front of the stage because without them chaos reigns, an example of this would be that in the documentary Megadeth behind the music, frontman Dave Mustaine explains that during one of Megadeths concerts the barricade that separated them from the crowd had collapsed causing the crowd to rush to the stage, causing the band to finish their show early and exiting the stage as fast as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJQ5m3bdWhQ (crowd incident starts at 53:45).
