newsletter Featured Good things come to those who innovate The last few months have been very chaotic with lockdowns, school closures and ever changing training and work schedules impacting the recording and writing of new content. I thought I’d catch everyone up on what I’ve been doing since the end of last year and give some idea
newsletter November News The last couple of months have allowed us to focus on our rigging at home content. This content is designed for parents or recreational students who want to set up a training space at home and need to know what is involved. Currently we have created two articles and two
factors-of-safety Setting up a safe rigging point at home Contents: 1. Introduction 2. How strong does your rigging point need to be 3. Is your building strong enough? 4. What kind of equipment do you need? 5. Is it done correctly 6. How to get the best from your structural engineer Introduction This document looks at the setting up
September News September has included a lot of new experiences for the world of circus dealing with a pandemic. There has obviously been a massive impact to everyone’s lifestyle and careers but we are starting to see some changes. We have seen a number of circus training organisations re-opening up in
Introduction to Safe Training at Home This document is part one of a series aimed at people who aren’t professional riggers but want to install equipment at home. There will be separate documents for riggers, and for structural or building engineers. This series includes: * Introduction to Safe Home Training (this document) * Setting Up a Safe
events Practical COVID-19 Solutions for Circus Schools Date: Friday 28th August 3-5pm As we are all opening or near to opening, come and find out what everyone is doing to try to stay safe and open. We have speakers from The National Centre of Circus Arts, Circomedia and Aerial Edge. We are moving beyond theory and into
newsletter August News This month we've been busy with a few different initiatives including creating some public guides on rigging, safe training at home and recording two videos on hoop rigging. We've been delving deeper into COVID-19 as we prepare to open again next month. We've also
events July Events Factor of Safety Working Group Monday July 13th 2pm In our Slack forum we have been discussing Factors of Safety in acrobatic rigging and co-creating an advisory document on the subject. This meeting is to help define the audiences for this content and what types of advice is suitable for
newsletter June Newsletter This month’s updates: * Training and Covid-19 * Factors of Safety research * The website & membership * Our next event Training and Covid-19 risk factors This month, 40 people attended our event which explored how we can return to training in this Covid-19 environment, with representatives from the UK, US and the
covid The 7 Ds guideline for Covid-19 infection risk assessment in training spaces Author: Catherine Knowles Following the precautionary principle, we should not be looking for evidence that a practice or activity is harmful before deciding to avoid it, but should instead be looking for evidence that a practice is safe before adopting it. I developed the 7 Ds below after research into
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about Join the conversation Once you are a member you will receive an invite to join the circusrigging.info slack team. This is not as yet an automated process and I'll need to add people manually. It's also not obligatory, you don't have to accept the invitation.
factors-of-safety How much do you weigh? How do you calculate what load your rigging (anchor) point should be able to support? Your own body weight plus a little bit? Double your weight? Does that give you an adequate factor of safety?
