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Safety and Prohibited items

HAVE A BLAST – NOT A BREAKDOWN
Mosh hard but stay smart.
Everyone’s here for the music.

HELP OTHERS
If someone falls, help them up – fast.
A strong pit is built on respect

GO WITH THE FLOW
Don’t fight the direction of the movement.
Stay aware, move together

TRAFFIC LIGHTS IN THE MAIN STAGE PIT
Red: The Pit is full – please wait
Green: There is room in the pit – Let’s go!

NO BAGS IN THE PIT
Backpacks and swinging straps hurt.
Keep the zone clear.

RESPECT THE SPACE
Not everyone wants to join the pit
– and it’s okay. Let folks choose

Note that Stage diving and crowd surfing are prohibited and let’s keep the pit safe & fun for everyone

Tuska Festival is committed to creating the safest possible space for everyone involved in the event – whether attending or working. Everyone has the right to feel welcome and safe without fear of discrimination, harassment, or any form of sexual or verbal misconduct. Physical and mental integrity is a right we all share.

  • ​​Intervene if you see or experience discrimination, harassment or improper treatment
  • If necessary, turn to the staff at a low threshold and ask for help
  • Don’t make assumptions, but communicate, ask and make sure
  • Permission is always asked to touch another
  • Please respect other people’s boundaries, wishes and your own will after you have first made sure what is ok and what is not
  •  ​​Benevolence and caring is allowed, even desirable
  •  ​​The atmosphere is kept open and communal
  •  ​Everyone has the right to be boldly themselves at the Tuska festival – be yourself too!

At Tuska Festival, everyone has the right to physical, psychological, social, and emotional safety. Everyone is responsible for their own behavior, and we expect all participants to treat others with respect.

A designated harassment contact person will be available throughout the festival. You can reach them confidentially and easily via the Tuska app, phone call, SMS, or email.
harassment@tuska.fi

If you experience or witness discrimination, harassment, or inappropriate behavior, you can talk to the harassment contact person in confidence. They will offer impartial support, guidance on next steps, and are also available to simply receive reports.

Anyone can make a report – attendees, performers, or staff. Your feedback helps us improve the safety of the event.

The festival security personnel will perform a security check at the gate, which also includes a physical check according to the instructions, taking sensitivity into account. The agelimit to the festival is 18 years. Please be prepared to present your ID, security will check ID’s when entering the festival area.

You can leave your belongings in the cloakroom by the festival gate, after the security check. Please note that huge backpacks or other large items can not be stored at cloakroom. Those items can be left at the Helsinki railway station storage.

A large group of professionals from event safety personnel to harassment contact person are looking after the safety of the event. On top of that there are also police and emergency services on site. You can recognize the event safety personnel from their bright yellow or orange vests. Please contact them in any issues.

  • Bringing your own alcohol beverages to the festival area is strictly prohibited. Bag check will be in effect upon entering the festival.
  • You can bring one (1) empty bottle, max. size 1,5 litres or one (1) unopened max. size 0,5 litres non-alcoholic beverage plastic bottle per customer.
  • You can bring a small amount of snacks; fruit, protein bar etc.
  • Empty aluminium waterbottles, canteens, thermos bottles and drinking horns are allowed in the festival area.
  • Aerosol bottles are forbidden.
  • Security personnel are allowed to forbid any suspicious bottles and ask to leave those to the cloakroom.
  • Please note that alcohol and all bottles are prohibited in the pit area in front of the Karhu Main Stage for safety reasons.
  • Please note safety with accessories (especially extremely studded bracelets etc.) and clothing. Your nail bracelet might hurt someone in a mosh pit. Security might ask you to leave any gear deemed as risk to others Use common sense with your outfit.
  • Stage diving and crowd surfing are prohibited.
  • Following items are forbidden on the festival area due safety reasons: any kind of weapons, class bottles, cans, professional cameras, audio recorders, selfie sticks and umbrellas. Security will do a safety check to the visitors upon arrival.
  • There’s a cloakroom at the festival where you can leave items deemed as a safety risk by the security.
  • It’s not allowed to bring animals to the festival area.
  • You’re not allowed to make open fire on the festival grounds. So no single-use-BBQ

Fold out chairs are permitted in the festival area, but not in front of the stages or other highly crowded areas.

 

Tuska adheres to the sound pressure limits set by the authorities. Remember to protect your hearing. You can purchase ear plugs from any of Bars or from the Info desk.

 

Pocket cameras & cell phone cameras are allowed. Professional photo equipment requires press accreditation. Press accreditation & photo passes will be granted for media personnel only, not private customers. All video cameras and other recording equipment are strictly prohibited.

 

Smoking is allowed only in designated smoking areas.

 

There are first aid points at the festival area. If the festival area is closed and you’ve received an injury call the Finnish emergency number 112.

The nearest pharmacy is located in REDI. Yliopiston Apteekki, Mannerheimintie 96, is open 24 hours.