CMU School of Drama


Saturday, September 08, 2012

Draft of Orchestra Pit Lift Standard in Public Review

Stage Directions: PLASA has placed a draft of BSR E1.42 – 201x, Entertainment Technology — Safety Standard for Orchestra Pit Lifts, a standard regarding the safe operation of orchestra pit lifts into public review. Comments are open until Oct. 22.

1 comment:

Meg DC said...

Why has PLASA not had some standard for orchestra lifts established before? I imagine there is a structural building code for orchestra lifts already. Will adding an article into the PLASA standards really help? Theatres which were not built to the standard which PLASA has set forth will need to be re-built or added to, which could be quite taxing both financially and as far as time not spent on production, possibly even resulting in some places dropping the PLASA standards. So are the standards in building code really ot enough?