INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Fire Prevention and Building Safety Commission unanimously approved new regulations on temporary staging May 2 that went into effect May 3. The regulations, which followed the April 12 release of two state-commissioned reports on the deadly staging collapse at the Indiana State Fair on Aug. 13, 2011, mandate engineer-approved rigging plans and detailed emergency plans. Event organizers can bypass the regulations by keeping fans away from the stage. The distance for this “buffer zone” would be the height of the rigging, plus eight feet.
