The Industry

I myself am not a trained technician as such, but I did study lighting and sound briefly at Curtin Uni. In regards to the issue of 'trained lighting technicians' MattC, from what I can gather from friends studying Lighting at WAAPA, its starts from understanding the nature and basics about electricity, to the safe work practices that one should adhere to.

I believe WAAPA techies doing lighting come out as some sort of qualified electrician. Can someone verify this? It makes sense that a lighting designer would be a qualified electrician.

Lighting technicians should also know what to do in the event of electrocution.

You've already mentiond the rigging part but perhaps the issue of hanging lights is in regards to having formal knowledge of how many amps or wattage (whatever, I'm not a techie!) is allowed on each dimmer channel and how that affects an electrical system.

I don't know anything about you MattC so I'm not making any assumptions about your qualifications or experience.

Just some thoughts.


Cheers,

Crispy.