Management Review

›› 2017, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (8): 251-262,272.

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Stampede Risk and Precautionary Mechanism in Ritual Public Events——Exemplified by the Crowded Stampedes in Shanghai

Wen Zhiqiang1, Hua Dongling2, Hao Yali3   

  1. 1. Research Institution of Political Culture and Political Civilization, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387;
    2. School of Economics, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387;
    3. Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
  • Received:2017-01-17 Online:2017-08-28 Published:2017-09-26

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Abstract:

Mass gathering is a kind of activity in which many factors, such as people, materials, environment and management, interact with, support and supplement each other in a self-organized manner. By analyzing the stampede accident in Shanghai, we find that a stampede accident usually comes into being through three states of crowd:orderliness, stagnation and stampede. High-density crowd stampede accident caused by individual action occurs when three kinds of people flow appear:surpassing flow, convective flow and converging flow. Ritual public activity should be operated in the smooth and orderly interaction of information payment and information reception, take risk early warning system as the core to strengthen the relevant mechanisms, and enhance the government's ability to respond and the safety awareness of the masses. Thus enhancing the sense of responsibility of government is the basis for preventing ritual public activities and making up for the system and rules loopholes and gaps is the precondition. We also need to further enhance the anti-interference ability and self-repair ability of masses in high-density crowd.

Key words: ritual public activities, mass gathering, management elements, trampling warning, synergistic mechanism