SafetyDocs help Free Martyn's Law help for venues

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  • If 200 or more people, including staff, can be in your venue at once, Martyn's Law applies to you.
  • For most venues that means four simple procedures and telling the regulator. Not a document.
  • Find out in two minutes below, or talk it through with us in fifteen. Both free.
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A single-line drawing of a village hall, with an arrow out of the door, an arrow into a side room, a padlock and a speech bubble: the four procedures.

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Question 1 of up to 7

What kind of place is it?

Question 2

How many people, including staff, can reasonably be expected to be there at the same time, from time to time?

Use your busiest regular day, your licence figure, or your fire risk assessment. "From time to time" means it happens, even if only a few times a year. A one-off nobody could have foreseen does not count.

Question 2, continued

Do you have a licence or fire risk assessment figure for the most people allowed in at once?

Question 3

Is any part of it a place of worship, or a school, nursery or college?

Question 4

Is your place inside somewhere bigger that is itself in scope?

A unit in a shopping centre, a bar inside a stadium, a cafe inside a museum.

Question 5

Does the building have more than one of those uses?

A hall with a bar, a hotel with a restaurant, a club with a function room.

Question 2

How many people, including staff, do you expect at the event at the same time?

Question 3

Can anyone buy a ticket or apply to come, or is it invitation only?

Question 4

Is entry by ticket, payment or membership, checked at a controlled perimeter?

Question 5

Is the site already an enhanced-tier premises for this kind of use?

A stadium or arena that regularly holds 800 or more for events like yours.

What the law asks of most venues

  • Four procedures, on paper or in heads, that your staff can carry out: get people out, get people somewhere safer inside, lock the doors, tell people what is happening.
  • Staff and volunteers who know them.
  • Tell the Security Industry Authority you exist, once their portal opens. No fee.
  • No cameras, no guards, no equipment, no consultant required.
  • No written document, unless you can expect 800 or more at once. Then it changes, and we will tell you.

Expected to apply from spring 2027. No date has been set.

Four cards, one for each procedure: an arrow out of a doorway, an arrow into a room, a padlock, a megaphone.

Or just ask

Fifteen minutes on the phone, about your building or your event. Which tier, which procedures, what to write down. I do twenty of these a month, first come, and there is nothing to buy at the end of it.

I've run live safety documents for arenas, conventions and sports grounds for years. The places this law will catch out are the ones without a safety team, and I'd rather you got it right than paid for a document you don't need.

David Franklin, SafetyDocs

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Line drawing of a function room with four marked points: an exit, a store room, a lockable door and a speaker.

Want the templates?

A free account gives you the four procedures as fill-in sheets, the regulator notification checklist and a one-page record, kept with your venue's details so it is there when you come back.

Three questions people ask

Does Martyn's Law apply to my venue? If it has one of the uses the Act lists and can expect 200 or more people, including staff, at the same time from time to time, yes. Under 200, no.

Do I need a document? Not at 200 to 799. Procedures in place and people who know them. From 800, yes.

When does it start? Expected spring 2027. No date has been announced.