Wednesday, October 12, 2016
US Navy Adopts ESTA Standards
Lighting&Sound America Online - News: The June 2016 edition of NAVFAC P-307, a publication of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Navy Crane Center Weight Handling Program Management, has a new section 13 entitled "Entertainment Hoists." The section calls out hoists systems identified in their equipment history files as being "entertainment hoists" and conforming to the design and manufacturing requirements in ANSI E1.6 as being different from hoists and cranes used for material handling and construction, and therefore being subject to different rules for their use and maintenance. Those rules include being maintained and operated in accordance with the ANSI E1.6 standards and the OEM recommendations.
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I have to say I am pretty confused by this article. I think it is saying that since the military has adopted entertainment standards that the standards are now more reliable to others which can expand the business of entertainment hoists. This is a major guess as to what this article is saying but I think I am close so we will go with that. I didn’t know that a lot of other hoists say that you shouldn’t stand under them. Obviously it is not because there is a higher likelihood of it falling because you’d expect a hoist to beable to hold its load whether there is a human under the load or not. Either way, it is cool to hear that our hoists are in some ways more reliable. I think there is a lot we do in theater that could be really useful for other industries, we are innovative because we need to be and I think more people and industries could look to us for cool ideas and products like the military did with hoists.
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