EventWell has introduced a new Quiet Room Safety & Supervision Standard (QSSS) in response to growing concerns about how quiet rooms are being implemented across the UK events industry.
Quiet rooms have become increasingly common at conferences, exhibitions, festivals, and sporting events as organisers look to support neurodivergent attendees, people with anxiety, and anyone experiencing sensory overload. But according to EventWell Founder Helen Moon, many of these spaces are falling short of basic safety requirements: “There are many quiet rooms in UK events that are not safe. And they’re not safe because they’re not supervised.”
EventWell hopes the QSSS will help the sector shift from good intentions to meaningful responsibility. Helen said the industry has an opportunity to lead the way on neuroinclusion by adopting evidence-based guidelines: “QSSS isn’t about making things complicated, it’s about making things safe,” she added. “It protects attendees. It protects organisers. And it raises the bar for what meaningful inclusion really looks like.”