NEW YORK, NY – More than 10,000 standards have been downloaded since April, when PLASA and ProSight Specialty Insurance announced their partnership to make PLASA’s American National Standards available to the industry free of charge as part of an effort to boost industry knowledge and safety. Among the most popular: ANSI E1.2, relating to aluminum truss and towers; ANSI E1.4, on counterweight rigging systems; ANSI E1.1, on wire rope ladders; and ANSI E1.6-1, on powered hoist systems.
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Individuals involved in every aspect of the entertainment industry have taken advantage of this offer including Jeff Carter, retired head of Indiana OSHA and head of the Indiana State Fair Stage Collapse Investigation who told us, “Jim Digby (Event Safety Alliance) sent me your note about ProSight and your ability to distribute the ANSI standards. I appreciate your foresight in getting these important documents out to the community where they can help prevent another similar tragedy. I wanted to extend my appreciation for your working out this arrangement. Thank you.”
Steve Jessop, district auditorium manager, Media Production Services, Colorado Springs School District 11 wrote to say, “I just wanted to say, as a technical professional who works supporting the public education system, specifically technical theatre education, thank you for making this available for us to interact with as we teach our students to be competent and safe technicians for the entertainment industry.”
ProSight, PLASA and all the volunteers who write the technical standards are committed to making sure that everyone who attends or works on an entertainment event, from a live show to a film shoot, goes home safely at the end of the day. Technical standards protect lives, prevent accidents, save money, solve problems, and encourage creativity. The partnership between PLASA and ProSight elevates safety protocol by making PLASA’s technical standards available to anyone to download, free of charge. The list of standards can be sorted by approval date to see what standards have recently been approved by ANSI.
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