Resources
Includes publications, safety alerts/notices, useful links, research, reports and letters.
Publications
- Fairgrounds and amusement parks: Guidance on safe practice
- Review of fairground safety
- Managing health and safety on river rapids rides
- Health and safety in ski-slope operations
- Managing health and safety at motorsports events
- ETIS 3 - Smoke and vapour effects used in entertainment
- INDG 142 – Managing crowds safely
- INDG 224 - Controlling the radiation safety of display laser installations.
- INDG 247 – Electrical safety for entertainers
- INDG 360 – Health and safety in audio visual production. Your legal duties.
- INDG 367 - Inspecting fall arrest equipment made from webbing or rope
- INDG 224 - The Safety of laser lighting displays
- HSG 169 - Camera operations on location
- HSG 260 – Sound advice: Control of noise at work in music and entertainment
- Safety in broadcasting sports events
- Violence to workers in broadcasting
- Special or visual effects involving explosives or pyrotechnics used in film and television productions
- Stunts, fights and other potentially hazardous production activities
- Buildings used for locations and temporary studios in film, television and theatre
- Management of firearms and other weapons in productions
- Safe filming and recording involving vehicles
- BIAZA guidance: Managing health and safety in zoos
Safety alerts/notices
Useful links
- The Amusement Devices Inspection Procedures Scheme (ADIPS)
- The National Association for Leisure Industry Certification (NAFLIC)
- The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain (SGGB)
- The British Association for Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions (BALPPA)
- The Society of Independent Roundabout Proprietors (SIRPS)
- The Association of Independent Showmen (AIS)
- The British Amusement Catering Trade Association (BACTA)
- The Amusement Catering Equipment Society (ACES)
- Sport and Recreational Alliance
- Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA)
- Visitor Safety in the Countryside Group
- National Water Safety Forum
- Register of Play Inspectors International (RPII)
- Association of Play Industries (API)
- National Karting Association (NKA)
- Play Safety Forum (PSF)
- Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
Research and reports
- Tagada ride: Inspection and analysis of downward acceleration
- HSL report on the g forces in crazy frog rides
- Mechanical, Control Systems and Ergonomics Integrity of the Safeco Crazy Frogs Type Amusement Device
- Work at height and use of tallescopes in theatres
- Report on the stability of Tallescopes
- TUV/NEL report: Review of Work at Height Practices in the UK Broadcasting Industry
- A Review of Work at Height Practices by the Broadcasting Industry in Sports Stadiums used by the UK Premier and Scottish Premier Football Leagues "Wash Up" report