Recent content by Floridaskye

I'm glad you spoke up, and I agree with you completely that things like this should be taken seriously. My stance on all of this is simply that people need to think of safety before convenience. My problem in the industry right now is that people don't and when you do confront them most of the...

Great thing to have is a small bungee cable attached to all tools you may be using above another person. I have one on my wrench when I'm focusing lights to make sure it doesn't fall and kill someone. Tie line is ok but you can snag on something and cause more damage to yourself or someone else.

I agree that it's a good principal to do such things and in my current position I probably would ask them to leave my shop. However as a technician on a broadway tour telling them to leave the theatre for using a Genie improperly and costing the rental house thousands of dollars would have...

I look forward to their visit so they can see just how safety conscious my Theatre is. You need to learn the difference between someone complaining about a problem and someone actually causing a problem.

Obviously you missed the point of my post. What I was saying is that we need to focus on using equipment the right way as an industry before we start quoting OSHA regulations. Also I never said I personally disabled any safety devices. You try telling an IATSE crew not to disable the safetys on...

Although there are many OSHA regulations for various lifts, generally these regulations are never followed. As long as I've worked in the industry I have never met anyone who tied themselves to something that would probably tip over on top of you if you fell off it. Also how many people actually...