ANSI’s Board of Standards Review has recently approved two more in ESTA’s Technical Standards Program collection of Event Safety standards. ANSI ES1.17 – 2025, Event Safety — Event Lighting & Electrical Safety, and ANSI ES1.42 – 2025, Parade Safety. ANSI ES1.17 addresses safe electrical working practices during installation, use, and dismantling of event electrical systems and equipment. It also addresses event lighting requirements with regard to public and event worker safety. ANSI ES1.42 addresses the unique public safety considerations associated with parades. It expands on ANSI E1.57 – 2016 (R2021), and applies some of the principles addressed in ANSI ES1.9 – 2020, as applicable specifically to parades.
ANSI’s Board of Standards Review also approved two rigging standards: ANSI E1.43 – 2025, Entertainment Technology — Performer Flying Systems, is a substantial revision of the prior 2016 version of the standard. It establishes a minimum acceptable level of performance parameters for the design, manufacture, use, and maintenance of performer flying systems used in the production of entertainment events. The purpose of this guidance is to ensure safety of the performer, other production personnel, and audiences under all circumstances associated with performer flying. ANSI E1.50-1 – 2025, Entertainment Technology — Requirements for Temporary Display System Structures covers the support of temporary installations of large format modular display systems, LED, video and other self-illuminating display structures not otherwise addressed by existing standards. The scope of this standard includes planning and site preparedness, assembly and erection, suspension and safety of components, special access requirements, use, and dismantling of these systems. It too is a revision of the prior 2017 version.
All four standards are now available for free download from the TSP website at tsp.esta.org/freestandards, and are also available for sale from ANSI and Accuris.
