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Performing Arts Rigging Safety: Legislation and Personal Safety Equipment

This unit covers the legislation and processes necessary to ensure health and safety in performing arts rigging. Topics include personal safety equipment such as harnesses, helmets, footwear, hand protection, tool security, fall arresting devices, communication, and appropriate clothing. Understanding legislation like the Health & Safety at Work Act and Control of Noise at Work Regulations is crucial for protecting individuals from work-related risks. This unit also delves into specific regulations such as LOLER, Electricity at Work Regulations, and Manual Handling Operations Regulations. Practical assessments involve rigging tasks and risk assessments to ensure safe practices in the performing arts industry.

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Performing Arts Rigging Safety: Legislation and Personal Safety Equipment

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  1. Unit 46 Performing Arts Rigging

  2. 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

  3. Personal Safety Equipment • Harnesses

  4. Personal Safety Equipment • Harnesses Safety at height (lighting Bridge) Un safe places to reach

  5. Personal Safety Equipment • Helmets

  6. Personal Safety Equipment • Helmets When other are working at height Stage safety

  7. Personal Safety Equipment • Footwear

  8. Personal Safety Equipment • Footwear Steel Capped Boots Protect feet from dropping Heavyloads. Need these for assessment!!!

  9. Personal Safety Equipment • Hand protection

  10. Personal Safety Equipment • Hand protection Gloves Protect hands from during get in/get out

  11. Personal Safety Equipment • Tool Security

  12. Personal Safety Equipment • Tool Security Dangers of tools working at height? Locked toolbox Tools attached to rigger

  13. Personal Safety Equipment • Fall Arresting Device

  14. Personal Safety Equipment • Fall Arresting Device Can be attached to machines when working at height. (Tallescope/Genie)

  15. Personal Safety Equipment • Communication – CALLS!

  16. Personal Safety Equipment • Communication Theatre Calls – “Heads up” “Coming In” “Going Out” “LX3” “Up stage”

  17. Personal Safety Equipment • Appropriate Clothing • Why Black?

  18. 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?

  19. 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

  20. Legislation The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 How can we control Noise levels in Work?

  21. 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

  22. 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.

  23. Legislation Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER)

  24. 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.

  25. Legislation Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 These regulations aim to impose duties to limit the risks involved in using electricity at work

  26. Legislation Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 Assess the risk, Reduce the risk. What can we do to prevent this???

  27. Legislation Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 Assess the risk, Reduce the risk. • RCD (Residual Current Devise) • PAT (Portable Appliance Testing)

  28. Legislation Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 “any transporting or supporting of a load”

  29. Legislation Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 “any transporting or supporting of a load” 3 steps?

  30. 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.

  31. Legislation Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992

  32. Legislation Risk Assessments A Risk assessment is an examination of a job carried out in the work place Risk Assessment Demo

  33. 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)

  34. Assessment (Next Week) • Hand in 1000 Word Blog updates • Q&A Test

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