ChurchProduction.com: Many churches have personnel with the knowledge and experience to do most of their own AV integration work. “Do it yourself” work can save a lot of money, and can provide important background and experience for those volunteers who will eventually be running their systems. No doubt, if someone helped install a system, they’re much more likely to understand how it works.
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This article is so right and comes at such a well-fitting time in my education here at Carnegie Mellon University. Today after rigging class I had a conversation with some of my classmates and Sean West about safety checking. He warned us that there is nothing safe about rigging. Even if everyone involved is doing their job in a safe and appropriate way, accidents happen and things go wrong. The difference s when something goes wrong in props we are looking at stitches. However, when bad things happen in rigging, those accidents can lead to multiple fatalities. That is why I 100% agree with this article not only for churches but other smaller, less experienced production facilities. This can help the lives of the production team, audience and in-house rigger, who may be held liable if tragedy hits. Hiring a professional cannot assure that nothing will go wrong, but I believe it is well worth the investment to know you did everything possible to assure a safe performance space.
There is no doubt that rigging, in general, has the most liability compared to any other position on a production team. It can sometimes be very hard to ensure proper execution whether it be an inexperienced volunteers or students in a learning environment. Even if you are being safe and following every convention there is still a large possibility that something will go wrong. Something like damaged equipment, that can be hard to detect, can cause a serious problem in a short amount of time. So if there something to take away from this article, it is to understand everything that is going on above you and the possible failure locations; taking additional measures to ensure that they can be prevented. Before taking a rigging course I never understood why standard protocol seemed like such overkill compared to what the equipment was rated for. But after seeing certain scenarios it is much clearer as to why we set these standards.
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