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Just a couple of things that slightly miff me
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<blockquote data-quote="Davethsparky" data-source="post: 490089" data-attributes="member: 27165"><p>Yes electric firing systems generally include a key switch to isolate the firing system and testing is carried out with this switched off. The incidents I mentioned were down to operator error quite a few years ago when most of our shows were still hand fired, everyone is far more experienced and better trained these days. </p><p></p><p>As a company we stopped manually firing displays a few years ago as we cannot justify the risk when we have the equipment to send out up to 8 electrically fired displays at the same time. </p><p></p><p>Many companies are still 'hand firing' fireworks because its quicker, cheaper and more fun that way, the industry is generally very backwards in terms of health and safety with many companies displaying poor practices at even national competetion level. </p><p></p><p>There was a programme on TV a few years ago following one company and their entry to the Plymouth fireworks competition, there were some things shown during the setup which go against some of the basic safety rules. </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Davethsparky, post: 490089, member: 27165"] Yes electric firing systems generally include a key switch to isolate the firing system and testing is carried out with this switched off. The incidents I mentioned were down to operator error quite a few years ago when most of our shows were still hand fired, everyone is far more experienced and better trained these days. As a company we stopped manually firing displays a few years ago as we cannot justify the risk when we have the equipment to send out up to 8 electrically fired displays at the same time. Many companies are still 'hand firing' fireworks because its quicker, cheaper and more fun that way, the industry is generally very backwards in terms of health and safety with many companies displaying poor practices at even national competetion level. There was a programme on TV a few years ago following one company and their entry to the Plymouth fireworks competition, there were some things shown during the setup which go against some of the basic safety rules. [/QUOTE]
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