Heko Scheltema is part of the knowledge centre of the Vereniging van Evenementenmakers (VVEM), the Dutch event industry trade organisation. This centre aims to ensure up to date information is available to all the members of the VVEM on topics which are relevant to their work. This includes (but is not limited to) fire-safety, crowd management, environmental issues, sustainability, health and safety and upcoming legislation. We organise workshops and give individual support where needed. In addition, we act externally to influence (national) legislation that has an impact on the event industry and create industry standards aiming to further improve the events industry. Heko also works at De Regelaar, a company providing advice and support to individual organisers and (local) government, particularly in the related fields of safety and permits. In this capacity he works in the field as event safety officer as well as writing integrated event safety plans and generally assisting organisers in their permit applications.