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Safety and Health for the Stage: Collaboration with the Production Process
Safety and Health for the Stage: Collaboration with the Production Process is a practical guide to integrating safety and health into the production process for live entertainment in the context of compliance with applicable codes, standards, and recommended practices.
This book explores the need for safety and health to become an integral aspect of theatre production and live entertainment, focusing on specific steps to take and policies to employ to bring a safety and health program into full collaboration in the production process. Readers will learn how to comply with legal codes and standards as they initiate and implement an effective safety and health program in their theatre production organization or academic theatre department. The book includes references and links to other industry-specific safety and health resources, as well as a Glossary of Safety and Health Terms to navigate the safety and health jargon in the context of theatre and live entertainment. Safety and Health for the Stage: Collaboration with the Production Process provides links to electronic versions of sample safety and health programs, industry-specific policies and recommended practices, and forms and templates related to many of the topics covered in the book.
Written for practitioners who are engaged in all aspects of theatre production and live entertainment, as well as educators who train and influence the next generations of these practitioners, this book is an essential resource for creating a positive culture of safety in live entertainment.
This book explores the need for safety and health to become an integral aspect of theatre production and live entertainment, focusing on specific steps to take and policies to employ to bring a safety and health program into full collaboration in the production process. Readers will learn how to comply with legal codes and standards as they initiate and implement an effective safety and health program in their theatre production organization or academic theatre department. The book includes references and links to other industry-specific safety and health resources, as well as a Glossary of Safety and Health Terms to navigate the safety and health jargon in the context of theatre and live entertainment. Safety and Health for the Stage: Collaboration with the Production Process provides links to electronic versions of sample safety and health programs, industry-specific policies and recommended practices, and forms and templates related to many of the topics covered in the book.
Written for practitioners who are engaged in all aspects of theatre production and live entertainment, as well as educators who train and influence the next generations of these practitioners, this book is an essential resource for creating a positive culture of safety in live entertainment.
266 pages, Paperback
Published February 2, 2020
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March 26, 2022
I was so thrilled to learn about this new publication, Safety & Health for the Stage by William J. Reynolds, particularly in light of the fact that my career safety reference--Health & Safety Guide for Film, TV, & Theatre by Monona Rossol--was issued in a second edition back in 2010. Much has changed in the industry and the greater industrial safety regulation standards in the past 12 years.
This is not the same kind of book as the Rossol text. It's not a handbook for professional artists in the field to explain and demystify all aspects of industrial health and safety as it applies to our fields.
Rather, it's a reference for theatre leadership, company managers, and facilities supervisors on the state of health and safety in the field and where to begin establishing procedures and practices for a company or academic department.
So it's not the book I hoped it would be, but it's even more necessary and timely, and an interesting read if you have an interest in safe work practices, whether you have the power to change the institutional culture/expectations at your workplace or not.
This is not the same kind of book as the Rossol text. It's not a handbook for professional artists in the field to explain and demystify all aspects of industrial health and safety as it applies to our fields.
Rather, it's a reference for theatre leadership, company managers, and facilities supervisors on the state of health and safety in the field and where to begin establishing procedures and practices for a company or academic department.
So it's not the book I hoped it would be, but it's even more necessary and timely, and an interesting read if you have an interest in safe work practices, whether you have the power to change the institutional culture/expectations at your workplace or not.
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