Venues, councils and centres each have rules for displays, and most of them are about the same things: how high a stand can be, how a marquee is weighted, what paperwork a build needs, and what you can give away or sample.
These pages explain each rule as what it is, when you'll meet it and who handles it, then point you to the venue or regulator for the exact figure. None of them replaces the venue's own manual.
Venue and centre rules
- How to check stand rules at Australian convention centres
Stand rules at ICC Sydney, MCEC, BCEC, Perth, Adelaide and Gold Coast compared: height limits, stand plans, rigging, test and tag and sample sizes.
- How to check venue rules before adding an LED wall
Adding an LED wall to an exhibition stand? Check floor loading, power, rigging, test and tag and height rules with the venue first. Examples from 5 venues.
- How to work within display height limits at venues and shopping centres
Display and exhibition stand height limits in Australian shopping centres, airports and showgrounds, and how to keep impact within a 1.4 or 1.5m limit.
Safety, paperwork and promotions
- What to check before you order giveaways for an event
Before you order promotional giveaways for an event: healthcare and alcohol codes, venue rules on balloons and handouts, and product safety checks.
- What is a SWMS, and does your stand build need one?
What a SWMS and a risk assessment are, when a venue or shopping centre will ask for one, and what to ask your stand or display installer to supply.
- How to make a touch-screen kiosk accessible
Accessible kiosk checklist: reach heights, floor space, contrast, captions, alternatives to touch and staff help, quoted from WCAG 2.2 and EN 301 549.
- All you need to know about amusement device registration
Booking a ride, simulator or jumping castle for an activation? What counts as an amusement device, when it needs registration, and the checks to make.
- How to weight a marquee for an outdoor event
Marquee weights per leg, peg bans and wind rules that councils and event organisers set, with real examples, ballast sums and a sign-off checklist.
- How to run a fair raffle or lucky draw at your event
How to run a fair raffle barrel or lucky draw at a corporate event or stand: permits, terms, entries and privacy, barrel set-up and the draw itself.
- How to sample alcohol, medicines and health products within the rules
Alcohol sampling rules for brand teams: whose licence covers a tasting, RSA, pour sizes, age limits, the ABAC Code and TGA limits on medicine samples.
