Martyn's Law Compliance
A practical public planning tool to help venues, organisers, and event operators assess readiness, identify gaps, and strengthen emergency and medical preparedness.
Developed by GWAS Ambulance Group to support venues, organisers and operational planners preparing for Martyn's Law obligations.
Why We Built This Tool
Martyn's Law has transformed the conversation around public event safety and venue preparedness. Yet many organisations understand the legislative headlines but still struggle with the practical question: What does real readiness actually look like?
Compliance documentation exists. Safety policies are in place. But translating legal requirements into operational reality — identifying specific gaps and building a practical, medically informed response capability — remains challenging for many organisations.
GWAS built the Martyn's Law Readiness Planner to bridge that gap. This is not a compliance checkbox. It is a practical planning tool designed to help you move beyond paperwork into genuine, operational preparedness.
What the Readiness Planner Helps You Do
The planner guides you through a structured assessment of your preparedness, helping you identify gaps and build an actionable plan.
Review Your Readiness Position
Assess your current preparedness level across key operational areas
Identify Practical Gaps
Discover specific areas where your preparedness can be strengthened
Plan Across Four Phases
Evaluate readiness across booking, planning, deployment, and post-incident response
Medical & Emergency Readiness
Consider prehospital care, medical support, and emergency response as core to safety
Build Your Action Plan
Generate practical next steps and improvement priorities for your organisation
Summary & Documentation
Create records to support internal review and stakeholder conversations
The GWAS Difference
This is not a generic compliance checker. The Readiness Planner is informed by GWAS operational experience and grounded in the GWAS white paper: Beyond Compliance: A Readiness Framework for Event Medicine Under Martyn's Law.
GWAS takes the view that preparedness must go beyond simple compliance language. Event medicine and prehospital response are a core part of public safety planning. Readiness must be practical, usable, and rooted in operational reality.
Booking
Selecting venues and partners with readiness in mind
Planning
Building operational readiness into the event plan
Deployment
Executing with trained, prepared teams on site
Post-Incident
Effective response, review, and continuous improvement
Who This Tool Is For
The Readiness Planner is designed for any organisation that hosts or organises events, manages public-facing premises, or has responsibility for attendee safety.
Event Organisers
Venues & Public Spaces
Sports Clubs & Leagues
Charities & Community Organisations
Schools & Educational Institutions
Film & TV Productions
About This Tool
The Martyn's Law Readiness Planner is designed to support practical preparedness review. It helps organisations think more clearly about their readiness, identify specific gaps, and develop action plans to improve their emergency and medical preparedness.
Important: This tool supports planning and preparedness and does not constitute legal advice or certification of compliance.
The GWAS Readiness Framework
The planner is built on a four-phase readiness model developed by GWAS to help venues and event organisers move from legislative awareness to operational preparedness.
Understand the Risk Environment
Identify the nature of your venue or event, your audience profile, and the specific safety risks you are required to address under Martyn's Law. Understanding your risk environment is the foundation of effective preparedness.
Assess Current Preparedness
Review your existing procedures, plans, trained staff, and emergency response capability. Honest assessment of your current position is essential before identifying where improvement is needed.
Identify Gaps
Compare your current readiness against the requirements and expectations of Martyn's Law across security, medical response, communication, and evacuation planning. Identify where specific gaps exist.
Build an Action Plan
Translate your gap assessment into a practical improvement plan with clear priorities. The planner helps you structure next steps so your organisation can make meaningful, measurable progress toward genuine readiness.
The framework is grounded in the GWAS white paper:
Beyond Compliance: A Readiness Framework for Event Medicine Under Martyn's Law
- The legislative context and practical obligations under Martyn's Law
- Preparedness gaps in event medicine and emergency response
- Deployment-level practical readiness and operational capability
- Medical and emergency response planning as a core safety function
The GWAS Martyn's Law Readiness Model
The planner is based on a four-phase readiness model designed to help venues, organisers and event operators assess preparedness and identify practical improvements aligned with Martyn's Law principles.
Understand the Risk Environment
Identify your venue type, public exposure, event scale and audience profile. Understanding the risk environment is the essential starting point for effective preparedness.
Assess Current Preparedness
Review existing security planning, incident response procedures, staff awareness, communications systems and medical and emergency capability.
Identify Gaps
Highlight areas where additional planning or resources may be required, including staff awareness, security arrangements, venue coordination and operational protocols.
Build an Action Plan
Generate practical next steps to improve resilience and preparedness, with clear priorities to help your organisation make meaningful progress.
Ready to assess your preparedness?
Use the planner to assess your current readiness, identify gaps, and build a practical improvement plan aligned with Martyn's Law principles.
Start the Martyn's Law Readiness Planner