[SML] Teaching technical theater and OSHA

[Stuart Wheaton]

OSHA should absolutely be involved in the safety of a university shop, 
because surely any university shop will have some staff or faculty 
member supervising it .

Shops used by students need close supervision and attention to safety 
rules ,etc,  specifically BECAUSE the users are not skilled and 
experienced people, but that is the entire point of an educational 
institution and if someone thinks students cannot do the work necessary 
to become competent they are missing the point of the place they work.  
And if someone has written OSHA rules that encourage this, they need to 
be re-written.

Stuart


On 9/12/2019 6:19 PM, Mike Katz via Stagecraft wrote:
> Another Point on this thread,  OSHA  is looking at student shops as 
> well, After the death of a student a few years ago in a Yale  machine 
> shop, Osha started an investigation even though it was a student and 
> not an employee. IIRC the said that the shop was also used by 
> employees and therefore they had jurisdiction.
> Mike
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> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 4:20 PM Stuart Wheaton via Stagecraft 
> <stagecraft at theatrical.net <mailto:stagecraft at theatrical.net>> wrote:
>
>     Replying to my own post...
>
>     Perhaps you need to recharacterize the theate as a teaching
>     laboratory for the theatrical arts  Or similar.  In educational
>     terms it is no different from a sculpture studio or a chemistry
>     laboratory.
>
>     By concretely tying it to an educational mission to create
>     employment - ready graduates of a technical theatre program
>     instead of as a wood and metal working shop supporting the theatre
>     product you might get the facilities person to see the light.
>
>     Stuart
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