Copies of the draft BSR E1.5 standard may be obtained from the ESTA website or by requesting a copy from ESTA's Technical Standards Manager via mail, fax, or e-mail (see below). Comments on the document should be received at the ESTA office before 17:00 Eastern Time on 10 December 2002. Comments received after that time may not be accepted in this public review. The BSR E1.5 project is an undertaking of the Fog & Smoke Working Group, part of the ANSI-accredited standards committee E1, Safety and Compatibility of Entertainment Technical Equipment and Practices. The Entertainment Services and Technology Association is the secretariat for Accredited Standards Committee E1 and provides administrative support to the committee. Membership in the working group is open to all who are affected by its work. Membership in ESTA is not a requirement.
BSR E1.8, Entertainment Technology - Loudspeaker Enclosures Intended for Overhead Suspension - Classification, Manufacture and Structural Testing, is also now available for public review, and will be through 10 December 2002. Loudspeakers suspended overhead are more than acoustical enclosures. They also are structural elements that must support significant weight. The document describes the structural requirements for loudspeaker enclosures intended for overhead suspension, which include enclosure construction, component part security, enclosure suspension hardware, manufacturing control systems, structural testing, and product representation. The standard is intended to enhance the safety of speaker rigging at music concerts and other public performances.
The draft standards may be obtained from the ESTA website at http://www.esta.org/tsp, or it may be obtained by writing via mail, fax, or email to Karl G. Ruling, Technical Standards Manager, ESTA, 875 Sixth Avenue, Suite 1005, New York, NY 10001. Fax: 1-212-244-1502.
(Lee Baldock)
