ABTT Stage Pyrotechnics Safety Awareness Course: (London, Only 2 places remaining!)
Member’s price £180.00+VAT
Non-member’s price £285.00+VAT
6 March | 9:30 am - 5:00pm
Croydon, Fairfield Halls
Please note that in completing the on-line application you are confirming that you wish to attend this course and any names on the application form that are changed after the 3rd March 2025 will incur an additional £30 admin fee
Should you wish to simply enquire about the course please contact admin@abtt.org.uk or Tel: 07760 549476
What is the Stage Pyrotechnics Safety Awareness Course?
The ABTT Stage Pyrotechnics Safety Awareness Course is a theatrical based, workshop style, training day. The course provides operational safety information from industry experienced tutors via ‘hands-on’ exercises and ‘live firing’ demonstrations. The course focuses on the safety implications associated with the use of popular, publicly available, Stage Pyrotechnic devices. Please note the course is only open to 18 year old candidates and above due to using explosives.
Who can do the course?
These Individual Certificated Courses are open to ABTT Members and non-members alike and are ideal for lighting/sound professionals, community theatre technicians, stage managers, students, venue managers, insurers, fire/security officers, indeed, anyone in the entertainment industry who has an interest or finds themselves associated with Stage Pyrotechnics.
What does the course cover?
• Workshop presentations and live device demonstrations
• Videos and observation exercises
• Candidates’ operation of devices and pressing buttons
• History and Accidents
• Flame Proofing and Fire implications
• Maroons, Flash Reports & Concussions and Noise
implications
• Fragmentation Tanks (Bomb tanks)
• Flashpots, Jets, Gerbs, Robotics, Comets, Mines
• Wiring Conventions (Series/Parallel) and Electrical Testing
• Risk Assessments and Record Keeping
• Law, HSE, Storage and Transport Guidance
What will I be able to do at the end of the course?
The course will provide candidates with an opportunity to keep ‘up to date’ with ‘considered best practice’ and familiarise themselves more readily with new and current regulations, alongside forthcoming UK/EU legislation. The course will also serve as an ideal refresher for Technicians who have to produce certificates of awareness, to keep themselves ‘In date’.
The training is facilitated by Just FX for the ABTT and the Association of Stage Pyrotechnicians (ASP) and all candidates will receive a comprehensive set of notes and, subject to satisfactory completion of the course, receive a certificate, signed by the tutors, and have automatic inclusion on the National ASP competency registers.
In order to take part in the course candidate details will be shared (for non-marketing purposes) with the ABTT and the ASP; and should candidates not wish to be included on the registers (www.stage-pyro.org.uk) they will be able to opt out and discuss this on the day with the tutors.