{"id":4599,"date":"2017-01-11T00:12:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T07:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2017-01-11T00:12:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T07:12:36","slug":"safety-and-security-at-road-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/11\/safety-and-security-at-road-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety and Security at Road 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[The safety of our guests is a priority for both Road to California and the Ontario Convention Center. Here are a few of the precautions we take each year to ensure everyone has a pleasant experience while visiting our show:\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Security Detail<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nProviding a quality experience that involves large crowds, over 200 classes and events, and more than 229 vendors and exhibitors, requires extra safety precautions. For the past six years, Road to California has hired special security detail to watch out for their guests. Their security personnel have extensive experience dealing with loss prevention with a big box retailer for over 20 years. They walk the show floor and hallways, scrutinizing body movements and behavior as they watch out for shoplifters and employees stealing from their employers. What advice do they have for our guests to help prevent possible losses?<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/road-2016-service-and-security\/attachment\/download-7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3708\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3708\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/download1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a>\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li><strong>Keep bags and purses close and in front of you.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li><strong>Use <a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/boy-scout-troop-628-doing-their-best-at-road\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sack Sitters<\/a> to manage your purchases. <\/strong>(Sack Sitters are from Boy Scout Troop 628. Located in the hallway of the Convention Center, the scouts give service and earn money for camp outs and other troop activities by watching over large purchases so guests don\u2019t have to haul heavy items around all day).<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/we-love-the-boy-scouts-happy-boy-scout-day\/attachment\/_i4c4086_copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1581\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1581\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/i4c4086_copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"587\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li><strong>At night, leave the convention center in groups.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Safety support<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nThe Convention Center hires a private ambulance service that is made available to assist guests with any medical needs they might have during the four days of the show. They are <strong>located at four stations<\/strong> in the Convention Center: under the stairs in the south lobby; in the pavilion tent; in the main hallway and in the north lobby.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-2017\/safety-and-security-at-road-2017\/attachment\/171\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4600\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/171-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"559\" \/><\/a>\nThe medics are ready and available to help with any kind of medical emergency before, during and after the show each day. Should a medical situation arise, medics advise that you <strong>\u201craise your hand for help\u201d <\/strong>and someone will come to your aid. If they can\u2019t handle a situation, they are prompted to call 911 and have an ambulance come to the convention center.\nThe medics report that <strong><em>falls<\/em><\/strong> are the most common medical situation they deal with at Road. To prevent falls from occurring, they recommend guests <strong>wear comfortable shoes<\/strong>, <strong>bring a friend<\/strong> to assist with special walking circumstances, proceed <strong>slowly and cautiously<\/strong> in crowded areas, and if you are used to using a <strong>walker or wheelchair<\/strong>, by all means bring that apparatus to the show.\nRoad to California is always watching out for our guests, especially when it comes to safety and security.\n&nbsp;]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[1143,1144,1167],"class_list":["post-4599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-2017","tag-safety","tag-safety-tips","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}