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Resident Advisor et Good Night Out have just launched a toolkit (available in FR/EN/PT/DE/ES) for promoters, collectives, and event organizers. It covers everything from defining sexual violence to briefing security staff, setting up chill-out spaces, encouraging reporting, and harm reduction around drugs and alcohol. On paper, it’s thorough, practical, and much needed.
Resources like this matter. Not every independent promoter has the time or expertise to craft a safety policy from scratch, so having a clear roadmap helps. And yes: safer nightlife should be a shared responsibility, not an afterthought.
But here’s the uncomfortable truth: nightlife is flooded with safety “labels,” training programs, and “safe space” guidelines, YET assaults and harassment remain rampant. DJs still share booths with known abusers. Promoters keep booking them as long as there’s no criminal conviction. Victims are often silenced, discredited, or pushed out of the scene entirely.
Without structural accountability and the courage to blacklist aggressors, safety initiatives risk turning into PR shields: a glossy badge for promoters while the same dynamics of power and abuse persist behind the curtains.
A toolkit is a start. But real change won’t come from PDFs and hashtags, it will come from difficult decisions about who gets booked, who gets supported, and who gets banned from the dancefloor.