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<blockquote data-quote="gordon mcgregor" data-source="post: 47531" data-attributes="member: 169">Re: New outdoor stage laws?!?!Tim the person who is the license holder for the event is usually the responsible person and in my experience that is usually the promoter or at least part of his/her company so ultimately its where the responsibility lies so if an accident does happen then that&#039;s where the buck stops, sure there will be much squirming and ducking but the license holder is utimately responsible. One thing though because most of these rules have been in place for a few years now most touring bands etc work to them anyway so there is usually few issues on a big event, the problem ones are still the smaller fairs but again readily availabe equipment tends to comply so it is much more unlikely that a stage made of radio antenna will show up. A a poorly constructed trailer stage showed up at a gig a while back and the owner had the inspector on his tail for most of the morning while he got it up to an accetable level now that event would not have been able to use the stage if it hadn&#039;t been fixed, the event may have continued without the performances on the stage but the promoter would have been very silly to have forced the point and ran the stage because if anything had happened then he would be fined at least and maybe corporate manslaughter if someone had been killed. Private parties are another thing altogether but so far few if any hit the headlines probably again because the available gear meets code and the people who supply it tend to set it up as they are trained. G</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gordon mcgregor, post: 47531, member: 169"] Re: New outdoor stage laws?!?! Tim the person who is the license holder for the event is usually the responsible person and in my experience that is usually the promoter or at least part of his/her company so ultimately its where the responsibility lies so if an accident does happen then that's where the buck stops, sure there will be much squirming and ducking but the license holder is utimately responsible. One thing though because most of these rules have been in place for a few years now most touring bands etc work to them anyway so there is usually few issues on a big event, the problem ones are still the smaller fairs but again readily availabe equipment tends to comply so it is much more unlikely that a stage made of radio antenna will show up. A a poorly constructed trailer stage showed up at a gig a while back and the owner had the inspector on his tail for most of the morning while he got it up to an accetable level now that event would not have been able to use the stage if it hadn't been fixed, the event may have continued without the performances on the stage but the promoter would have been very silly to have forced the point and ran the stage because if anything had happened then he would be fined at least and maybe corporate manslaughter if someone had been killed. Private parties are another thing altogether but so far few if any hit the headlines probably again because the available gear meets code and the people who supply it tend to set it up as they are trained. G [/QUOTE]

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