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Unit 46
Performing Arts Rigging
Understand legislation and processes
necessary to ensure health and safety
• Personal Safety Equipment – Harnesses, Helmets, footwear,
hand protection, Tool security, Fall arresting devices,
communication, appropriate clothing.
• Legislation – Health & Safety at work act, Control of noise at
work regulations, Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment
regulations (LOLER), Electricity at work regulations, Manual
Handling Operations Regulations
Personal Safety Equipment
• Harnesses
Personal Safety Equipment
• Harnesses
Safety at height (lighting Bridge)
Un safe places to reach
Personal Safety Equipment
• Helmets
Personal Safety Equipment
• Helmets
When other are working
at height
Stage safety
Personal Safety Equipment
• Footwear
Personal Safety Equipment
• Footwear
Steel Capped Boots
Protect feet from dropping
Heavy loads.
Need these for assessment!!!
Personal Safety Equipment
• Hand protection
Personal Safety Equipment
• Hand protection
Gloves
Protect hands from during get in/get out
Personal Safety Equipment
• Tool Security
Personal Safety Equipment
• Tool Security
Dangers of tools working at height?
Locked toolbox
Tools attached to rigger
Personal Safety Equipment
• Fall Arresting Device
Personal Safety Equipment
• Fall Arresting Device
Can be attached to machines
when working at height.
(Tallescope/Genie)
Personal Safety Equipment
• Communication – CALLS!
Personal Safety Equipment
• Communication
Theatre Calls – “Heads up” “Coming In” “Going
Out” “LX3” “Up stage”
Personal Safety Equipment
• Appropriate Clothing
- Why Black?
Legislation
• Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) –
All people have a legal right to be protected from
work related risks.
Document cover duties of employers and
employees.
What kind of duties do employers have to cover?
Legislation
The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005
• Noise at work can cause hearing damage that is
permanent and disabling
• Power tools, Busy roads, Engineering
• ‘How loud and how long exposed for’
• 87 dB (at 1m) for daily or weekly personal noise
exposure & 140 decibels for peak sound pressure
Legislation
The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005
How can we control Noise levels in Work?
Legislation
The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005
How can we control Noise levels in Work?
• limiting the time people spend in noisy areas
• Using quieter equipment
• Ear protection
Legislation
Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment
Regulations 1998 (LOLER)
• Lifting equipment includes any equipment used at
work for lifting or lowering loads, including
attachments used for anchoring, fixing or supporting
it.
• Includes Cranes, Forklift Trucks, Lifts, Hoists ect.
• Make sure that all lifting equipment is, Sufficiently
Strong, Visibly Marked (SWL) ect.
Legislation
Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment
Regulations 1998 (LOLER)
Legislation
Electricity at Work Regulations 1989
These regulations aim to impose duties to limit the risks
involved in using electricity at work
• Contact with live parts causing shock and burns – normal
mains voltage, 230 volts AC, can kill
• Faults which could cause fire
• Fire or explosion where electricity could be the source of
ignition in a potentially flammable or explosive
atmosphere.
Legislation
Electricity at Work Regulations 1989
These regulations aim to impose duties to limit
the risks involved in using electricity at work
Legislation
Electricity at Work Regulations 1989
Assess the risk, Reduce the risk. What can we do
to prevent this???
Legislation
Electricity at Work Regulations 1989
Assess the risk, Reduce the risk.
• RCD (Residual Current Devise)
• PAT (Portable Appliance Testing)
Legislation
Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
“any transporting or supporting of a load”
Legislation
Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
“any transporting or supporting of a load”
3 steps?
Legislation
Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
“any transporting or supporting of a load”
• First : avoid hazardous manual handling
operations so far as is reasonably practicable;
• Second : assess any hazardous manual handling
operations that cannot be avoided; and
• Third: reduce the risk of injury so far as is
reasonably practicable.
Legislation
Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
Legislation
Risk Assessments
A Risk assessment is an examination of a job
carried out in the work place
Risk Assessment Demo
Assessment (Next Week)
• Unload and place a moving light on stage
• Erect a flat and 1 piece of staging (rostra)
• Set up a PA System and run Line and Mic level
inputs
• Bring a lighting bar in
• Rig a 15amp generic light (+safety equipment)
• Hang Cyclorama
• Complete Risk Assessment (Written)
Assessment (Next Week)
• Hand in 1000 Word Blog updates
• Q&A Test