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Ten ESTA standards documents now available for public review

ESTA’s Technical Standards Program (TSP) has announced that ten standards documents - comprised of one reaffirmation, two revisions, and seven new draft standards - are now available for public review. All of their respective review documents are available for download from the TSP’s Public Review Documents download page. The public review forms can be returned with any comments one may have, before the deadlines shown.

New draft standard from the Weapons Safety Working Group: BSR E1.78, Prop Weapons Safety

The purpose of this standard is to provide uniform guidance for the safe use of weapons or weapon-like properties (props) in entertainment event productions. It covers prop weapons such as those that look like firearms (whether capable of firing cartridges or not), edged weapons (e.g., swords and knives), and projectiles (e.g., arrows and darts). The standard does not cover weapons used by security forces or those carried by audience members or staff for personal protection. It also does not cover weapons used in sporting events such as bullseye pistol or fencing competitions. The goal is to eliminate injuries and deaths from weapons or weapon-like props used in entertainment productions. Comments can be submitted before September 22, 2025.

New draft standard from the Electrical Power Working Group: BSR E1.79, Television, Film, Live Performance, and Event Electrical Guidelines for Canada

This guideline addresses installation of electrical equipment in the Canadian entertainment industry using any source of power including generator sets. Its scope includes temporary events such as film, television, and live performance, whether held indoors, outdoors, or in tents. This standard’s goal is to make a recommended practices document for all of Canada, based on “Electrical Safety Authority Spec 003”, which was written by the Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) in cooperation with the Entertainment Electrical Safety Committee of Ontario. Comments can be submitted before September 22, 2025.

New draft standard from the Electrical Power Working Group: BSR E1.86, Pinout Configuration Types for use with Power & Control Connectors for Fixed Speed Electric Chain Hoists in the Entertainment Industry

This standard covers specific functions assigned to the pins of multi-circuit and NEMA Locking-type connectors used for power and control of fixed speed chain hoists in the entertainment industry. Comments can be submitted before September 22, 2025.

New draft standard from the Event Safety Working Group: BSR ES1.2, Event Safety - Planning & Management

The goal of this standard is to identify the design considerations that may have a positive or negative impact on the safety of events when choosing an event site or venue. It will also discuss how the design of an event within a chosen venue or event site can improve the safety of event personnel and attendees. Comments can be submitted before September 22, 2025.

New draft standard from the Event Safety Working Group: BSR ES1.8, Event Safety - Venue & Site Design

The goal of this standard is to identify the design considerations that may have a positive or negative impact on the safety of events when choosing an event site or venue. It will also discuss how the design of an event within a chosen venue or event site can improve the safety of event personnel and attendees. Comments can be submitted before September 22, 2025.

New draft standard from the Event Safety Working Group: BSR ES1.43, Event Safety - Material Handling

This standard addresses provision, availability, and use of safe material handling procedures, equipment, training, and planning at special events. It will help identify and assess specific material handling hazards specific to the event environment, and help the reader to understand how lack of planning, appropriate equipment, and training can negatively impact life safety at an event. Comments can be submitted before October 6, 2025.

Reaffirmation from the Photometrics Working Group: ANSI E1.54 - 2021, ESTA Standard for Color Communication in Entertainment Lighting

ANSI E1.54 specifies the color space to be utilized when communicating color between lighting controllers and color-changing luminaires. The method is generic, is neither manufacturer-specific nor color technology-specific, and it facilitates communication of chromaticity only. This is a reaffirmation public review, asking if its current requirements remain adequate to address the subject matter without substantive revision. Comments can be submitted before September 22, 2025.

New draft standard from the Control Protocols Working Group: BSR E1.31-1, Per-slot priority extension for ANSI E1.31

ANSI E1.31 provides a fast and efficient mechanism to transport the ANSI E1.11 protocol, but it also introduces a complication not possible in the original DMX standard: multiple sources. ANSI E1.31 does not cover cases where a controller wants to explicitly control a small subsection of values without disturbing the rest. Over the course of time, entertainment manufacturers created a technique to individually set priorities on a per-slot basis, and this extension to E1.31 formally codifies that technique as a standard. Comments can be submitted before September 22, 2025.

Revised draft standard from the Rigging Working Group: BSR E1.2, Design, Manufacture, and Use of Aluminum Trusses and Towers

This standard describes the design, manufacture, and use of aluminum trusses, towers, and associated aluminum structural components, such as head blocks, sleeve blocks, tower bases, and corner blocks, used in the entertainment industry. Comments can be submitted before September 22, 2025.

Revised draft standard from the Rigging Working Group: BSR E1.56, Rigging Support Points

This standard applies to stationary rigging points, attached to permanent facility structure, that are intended to be permanent, and provides minimum requirements for the design, fabrication, installation, inspection and documentation of these rigging points for their use to support rigging loads. Comments can be submitted before September 22, 2025.

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