Festival Republic boss Melvin Benn has announced new measures to help festival goers, in the wake of events at Latitude Festival.
Benn, the organiser of the festival, has made the move as a result of two alleged rapes during the event earlier in July.
Festival Republic also runs the Reading And Leeds Festivals and the Big Chill, which all take place in August.
Benn told BBC News, "
We will provide additional information, guidelines [and] support, particularly for young women under 18."
He also emphasised the safety of festivals, saying, "Festivals are made up of an incredible amount of like-minded people who offer great support to each other."
"There are two allegations. I do resent the way the press have made it out as being that somehow these are suddenly unsafe places to be. I'm very confident and very comfortable about the safety standard of the entire music industry here in the UK."
"If rape took place it's horrific. I think we work very hard on safety. All of our campsites are lit, we have lots of stewards in them, they're all in high vis [high visibility jackets]."
Benn was speaking on the site of the Leeds festival, which takes place on August 27-29 and will be headlined by the Arcade Fire, Blink-182 and Guns N' Roses.
Benn emphasised that there was no danger of a repeat in the UK of the tragic events at the Love Parade in Duisberg, Germany, last weekend. A stampede caused 19 people to be crushed to death, while some 80 people were injured.
According to reports, around 1.4 million people turned up at the event, compared to the 250,000 it was authorised to hold, as reported by Spiegel magazine.
Benn said, "None of the UK festivals have even the remotest issue like that. They're all licensed under very strict premises licensing guidelines and I'm very confident and very comfortable about the safety standard of the entire music industry here in the UK."
Thanks for the report to Spinner.com.
I don't imagine it being very easy to rape someone at a music festival of all places though. Unless they were drugged first/wasted.
As long as you're careful you should be fine...