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Theatre Fire?

Tue, 2 Mar 2010, 09:46 am
JoeMc17 posts in thread

It's in the middle of a perrformance, there is a full house a lot of smoke & the venue is plunged in to darkness - What would you do?

  

You have a point

Thu, 4 Mar 2010, 01:22 pm
There are a couple of venues I work (un-named) that have neither emergency lighting or smoke alarms. They are both protected under "grandfather clauses" and "heritage restrictions' neither of which in my opinion should apply. We are after all playing with human lives. Neither of these venues have a resident tech or in fact anyone trained in OH&S or Fire emergency practices and as far as I know have no evacuation plan. I was the designated fire and health and safety officer in a receiving house in the UK for about 8 years and the hoops I had to jump through were amazing. Not the least regular but surprise fire inspections by the local fire authority. Is that all there is? Well if that's all there is my friend, then let's keep dancing. www.tonymoore.id.au

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