WA Guidelines on the Application of the Health (Public Buildings) Regulations 1992

You may or not know, that here in WA, the power supply differs from the eastern States. Our supply is 440VAC 3 phase & 254VAC single phase [+/-5% acording to the supply authority scriptures, but spikes & surges do occur - but it easier these days to smooth out the power supply, with technoligy, as I'm sure it happens from time to time in other states. (but that is all another story)] So the Portable Appliance Test should be more so part of the WA general theatre/venue housekeeping proceedures & policy. This may help all the warm props, luvvies & twirlies in Ameatre & beyond. Which is an actualy guarded secret, that Sparkies & techies know about, but don't divulge to others, especial in the performing arts. But as this topic has highlighted the electrical safety. It would be in line to give an insight in to the mystical world of lighting & electrix. However the relisation of the basics of what electricity & light are about? Comes when the the electrical apprentice completes thier Indenture. Or the 'TIT' [Techie In Training] 'serves thier time' & is let loose as a KAT [Know All Techie]. The secret is electricity is based upon the "Spectral Manifestation Of Known EMF (Voltage)" A.k.a 'SMOKE' for short! Now after they have grasped nettle of 'OHMS LAW' they become to understand it is not mystical things like electrons & all the res of the 'Tron' family - it's simply S.M.O.K.E! Bell Labs have done extentsive reseach on the generation of S.M.O.K.E & thier findings have been published. Anyone can prove thier findings simply. If they have ever witnessed smoke coming out of an appliance. This generaly means that yes the equipment is working, but more importantly that electricity [smoke] is leaking. Unless some action is taken to plug the leak, it will eventualy run out of smoke & stop working! Now you may ask how the smoke gets in & powers up the equipment? This is simple as smoke power is generated by Darkness being absorbed by the light globe, to also prove this! Just think of every time you enter a dark room & switch a light globe on. {The globe is a 'Darkness Absorber [Sucker]}, this is easily observed as the Dakness disapears from the room & becomes light. Much the same as every time your driving a car & it becomes dark. You turn the headlights on & the darkness is sucked up into the 'Smoke collector' [battery] for storage, to be used later. The same as hapens with a torch, knowing all tourch smore storage units [batteries] leak eventualy, the darness generated smoke will out & the torch stops working. So now you know the secret of electricity, this may help in future to take action imediatly upon seeing any smoke & advising the techie or sparky, that this is happening, rather than just ignoring hoping it will run out - this will also helps save power & resources. If further investigation is required, this websyte by Joseph Lucas will go a long way to answering all your possible questions?;- http://www.peizhang.com/forfun/forfun_writings_smoke.htm Joe

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[May you always play to a full house] Hear the lights & see the sounds.