teqniqal
Well-Known Member
Two more items:
Gloves - protecting your hands is very important. I see a lot of stagehands wearing the name-brand gloves (Dirty Rigger, Mechanix, etc.) which are mostly synthetic materials (read: plastic). Leather generally has better puncture resistance than these products offer. A larger consideration is that plastic melts when it gets hot or catches fire. Not what you want on your hands should something go horribly wrong. Also, keeping some disposable Nitril gloves for cleaning-up messes (blood, chemicals, paint) is a good idea. Of course you need to keep a list of which chemicals the gloves are compatible with handy! Some thermal gloves for handling very hot (lights) or very cold (Dry Ice) is handy, too.
Knee Pads - Keeping nails, screws, tacks, metal shavings, nuts, and other shrapnel out of your knee caps is a good thing. An if you work in a theatre that has bar-grate or expanded metal decks on catwalks and gridirons, this can save a lot of pain.
Gloves - protecting your hands is very important. I see a lot of stagehands wearing the name-brand gloves (Dirty Rigger, Mechanix, etc.) which are mostly synthetic materials (read: plastic). Leather generally has better puncture resistance than these products offer. A larger consideration is that plastic melts when it gets hot or catches fire. Not what you want on your hands should something go horribly wrong. Also, keeping some disposable Nitril gloves for cleaning-up messes (blood, chemicals, paint) is a good idea. Of course you need to keep a list of which chemicals the gloves are compatible with handy! Some thermal gloves for handling very hot (lights) or very cold (Dry Ice) is handy, too.
Knee Pads - Keeping nails, screws, tacks, metal shavings, nuts, and other shrapnel out of your knee caps is a good thing. An if you work in a theatre that has bar-grate or expanded metal decks on catwalks and gridirons, this can save a lot of pain.
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