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www.yourperformancepartners.com: How will you celebrate Arbor Day on April 24? We’re joining with USITT in celebrating Rigging Safety Day, a day to promote safer stages by posting and tweeting with the hashtag #RigSafe.
I would like to acknowledge that we are going to be celebrating Arbor (Safety) Day with an arbor in our theater literally full of stage weights. This feels like a good time to add my opinion on the topic of full arbor safety. Regardless of what any current system is, I think that it MOST DEFFINATLY SHOULD BE the standard that the line set attached to an arbor can hold as much weight as you can fit into the arbor with all of the appropriate safety factors. In the past few weeks I have heard many argument both pro and con for why to have this be the case or not. Personally, I think the pros outweigh the cons significantly, and it would not be that much extra effort to build a system in this manner. At the very least, there should be a visual line on the arbor that marks the “do not fill above here” line.
Arbor day. thats hilarious and perfect. It is also a really great idea because people forget to check their rigging (especially in smaller theaters) if they don’t have a set time. And now they do, and I don’t think anyone will forget. Will inspectors start getting overly booked on Arbor day because of this? Do you really need to have your systems inspected once a year? Shouldn’t you as a rigger be constantly checking your systems? And if you are doing that why do you need a really thorough inspection once a year? I feel like that is a little much but I don’t know. I wonder how often ours is professionally inspected…or are the professionals and professors who work here certified to pass our systems? What exactly do you do to test the system? Is it just a visual check? This whole post was pretty much just questions that I didn’t even realize I had but now I hope to find these answers and I’ll probably be coming around to ask. See you soon.
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I would like to acknowledge that we are going to be celebrating Arbor (Safety) Day with an arbor in our theater literally full of stage weights. This feels like a good time to add my opinion on the topic of full arbor safety. Regardless of what any current system is, I think that it MOST DEFFINATLY SHOULD BE the standard that the line set attached to an arbor can hold as much weight as you can fit into the arbor with all of the appropriate safety factors. In the past few weeks I have heard many argument both pro and con for why to have this be the case or not. Personally, I think the pros outweigh the cons significantly, and it would not be that much extra effort to build a system in this manner. At the very least, there should be a visual line on the arbor that marks the “do not fill above here” line.
Arbor day. thats hilarious and perfect. It is also a really great idea because people forget to check their rigging (especially in smaller theaters) if they don’t have a set time. And now they do, and I don’t think anyone will forget. Will inspectors start getting overly booked on Arbor day because of this? Do you really need to have your systems inspected once a year? Shouldn’t you as a rigger be constantly checking your systems? And if you are doing that why do you need a really thorough inspection once a year? I feel like that is a little much but I don’t know. I wonder how often ours is professionally inspected…or are the professionals and professors who work here certified to pass our systems? What exactly do you do to test the system? Is it just a visual check? This whole post was pretty much just questions that I didn’t even realize I had but now I hope to find these answers and I’ll probably be coming around to ask. See you soon.
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