Student Responsibilities
Lighting and Electrical Devices
- Lighting and electrical devices must be commercially available, plug-based products that require no field wiring. All electrical devices must be Underwriter’s Laboratory (UL) approved and tagged. Exceptions to these basic electrical safety rules will only be considered after consultation with and approval by OUP, Yale EHS, and/or Yale Fire Code Compliance. Any actual wiring must be performed by a licensed electrician.
- All electrical extension cords must be fully insulated, with three prong grounded connectors. Lightweight “zip cords” and flat wire cords are not allowed.
- Lighting, sound equipment, and rigging may not be affixed to fire sprinkler pipes, nor may cables or equipment be run through or across aisles or exit ways.
- Any floor-run temporary wire or cable runs must be securely taped to the floors or walls and may not cross aisles or doorways.
- Theatrical lighting and sound equipment must have safety cables through the equipment and secured around a yoke to the supporting structure.
- Light fixtures without lenses must have a safety screen or gel securely fastened to the lighting fixture to protect the exposed lamp.
- Lighting equipment and all other rigging over the audience seating area is highly discouraged. Where used, lighting towers must be secured at the top, bolted to the floor, and secured or sufficiently weighted at the bottom to prevent falling. Lighting towers or booms up to ten feet tall and/or with up to four lights must have at least 125 pounds of counter-weight secured to the base. The use of towers or booms greater than ten feet high or with more than four lights is prohibited at all locations except the Off-Broadway and Whitney Theaters, and events produced by the Yale Dramatic Association.
- Strobe lights may only be used in a production if their use is described on all posters, programs, and publicity announcements and also directly to the audience during the pre-show public announcement. This is to ensure that audience members with certain pre-existing ocular or neurological conditions will be aware of pending strobic light.
