My dad has an engineering degree and loves to build things and tinker so I grew up around power tools and open flames. From an early age I learned about these dangerous, sharp, fast moving machines, but NEVER before receiving an appropriate safety lecture and donning proper safety gear. Safety around dangerous situations became common sense to me in the process. When I got to HS in shop classes and in our scene shop it did shock me a bit to see people so fearless of the dangers that they would ignore even the most common sense practices like safety glasses and proper lifting technique. Luckily myself and others corrected those who were deficient early on and we headed off any significant accidents. I find that people have to be reminded on how high the stakes get when activity scales up to the size of a working professional theater, when a great deal of time pressure is added.
What's funny is I worry now more about other people's saftey than I do my own.
The worst part is people being oblivious to reality. We were tossing out some old 360Q's and fresnels in a dumpster and one of my crew members decided to take a lens and try and smash it in the dumpster. Two or three tries later she ended up with her hand gashed, came running down the hallway gushing blood, and ended up with 13 stitches in her hand. It gets worse though; this happened only 2 minutes after I walked away having told people to stop acting like morons and stay out of the dumpster.
Only time we've ever had to use a mop to clean up blood...
In high school, I'd do whatever it take to get a show done, regardless of safety. It was the pride of knowing that I put in everything I had, with so few resources. The risks were what made it fun!
Or not uncle buddying something
Oh, I'm sorry. This is what it looks like and we use them whenever we reweight.Can't say I am familiar with the term. I am pretty sure I know what you are referring to, but care to elaborate? Or maybe share the story behind the term?
~Dave
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