Lighting&Sound America Online - News: This March, Total Structures' hosted its first ever Outdoor Stage Roof Workshop, focusing on aluminum temporary stage roof systems. The primary objectives for this event were safety, education, and to promote discussion within the industry on the correct use of such structures.
Friday, March 30, 2012
Total Structures' Pioneers Outdoor Stage Roof Workshop
Lighting&Sound America Online - News: This March, Total Structures' hosted its first ever Outdoor Stage Roof Workshop, focusing on aluminum temporary stage roof systems. The primary objectives for this event were safety, education, and to promote discussion within the industry on the correct use of such structures.
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Education is always something that individuals say would have prevented accidents, and that we can never get enough of it. This is defintely true; we can always learn from the past and continue to learn expanding what we know and also increasing our awareness of the future. Im glad to see that Total Structures' is pushing forward and taking what happened in the past to create a better future. The push they had to create this course might not have been good for many individuals, but the development of this course and response of individuals shows that we are willing and there is progress being made for safety. Standards, laws, rules, and regulations might help. But education is a great step and Im glad to see a company offering the class to its customers.
Total Structure's class is truly an important aspect from the outcome of the tragic accident in Indianna. Even if the system came with instructions and companies have been putting thier systems together for years, it is still a good idea to hold a workshop to demonstrate the proper way of doing it. As AJ stated in the previous comment, we can never get enough education. However, my question is: why was this not done before? and why does it take a tragedy for this to happen? I would feel that in any instance a company makes something that is to be taken down and assembled on a regular basis should already have workshops in place to train the technicians. When I worked with ZXF Flying Systems, they had someone come out, not only to assemble it, but to train us on how to assemble and operate it. By understanding all aspects of the piece, I feel that the operating crew handled it more successfully and safely.
After Indiana's tragedies, it is good to see that there is a lot of communication going on regarding rigging safety and live event structure construction. I think it's great that so many individuals from around the world could get together and contribute their collective knowledge to improving each others' safety techniques and sharing ideas. I agree with Tim - shouldn't we be doing this more often? Hopefully the practice will continue and more people can become familiar with the proper safety measures that need to be taken when installing structural systems.
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