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Deutsches Institut fur Normung e. V.

Entertainment technology - Machinery installations - Part 1: Safety requirements and inspections
 N 56950-1

Annotation

This standard applies to machinery and machinery installations used in places of assembly and in staging and production facilities for events and theatrical productions (stage machinery, for short). Such facilities include: theatres, multi-purpose halls, exhibition halls; film, television and radio studios; facilities in:

- concert halls,

- schools,

- exhibition halls,

- bars,

- discotheques,

- open-air stages and

- other rooms for shows and events.

For the purposes of this document, machinery installations are all technical installations and equipment used for operations in stage and production facilities in the entertainment industry. Such installations are used to lift, lower, suspend and carry loads (e.g. scenery, traverse systems, or lighting, film/video and sound equipment). They may also be used to move persons, and persons may stand under such equipment while the loads are at rest or in motion.

This standard applies to machinery and machinery installations with guided or unguided load bearing and load carrying equipment.

Typical machinery installations include but are not limited to the following:

- auditorium elevators;

- cycloramas;