Blue Box Technical Services

Event production professionals based in Manchester, covering the North West and North Wales. Specialists in lighting, sound, and media for live events, and technical consultancy for new-build and refurbishment projects at schools, churches, and entertainment venues.

Services → Safety Services

Laser & Pyrotechnic Inspections & Sign-off

Has an external company brought a laser onto your premises? Do you know whether it's safe?
Are you concerned that pyrotechnics being used may not be suitable for the size of your venue?
Don't take risks — we're here to help with friendly, specialist safety advice.

Blue Box Technical Services is a member of the Association of Stage Pyrotechnicians (ASP), and has many years of experience planning and firing pyrotechnic effects. In addition, BBTS consultants are trained fire marshals and have undertaken professional laser awareness training. Our consultants have personally inspected and signed off pyrotechnic and laser effects for numerous large arena shows as well as theatres and smaller venues, making us ideally placed to advise on the safe use of lasers and pyrotechnics for your event.

Risk Assessment

The words “risk assessment” fill many people with a certain amount of dread — most hate having to carry them out and don't see the point. We at Blue Box Technical Services think differently. We believe risk assessments are a crucial and powerful tool that can help you safely achieve things you would otherwise not be permitted to do.

Blue Box Technical Services can risk-assess your venue or an individual event.

Our risk assessments cover the following areas:

  • Venue, Site Design, and Access
  • Fire Safety
  • Structures
  • Electrical Installations and Lighting
  • Sound: Noise & Vibration
  • Special Effects: including Smoke & Haze, Pyrotechnics, Strobes, and Lasers
  • Working at Heights

Emergency Planning

It is essential that all public events and venues have effective emergency planning and contingency measures in place, which are tested regularly, and in which staff know their responsibilities and how to respond should an incident occur.

Blue Box Technical Services has worked with a number of clients to review existing or develop new emergency procedures for their venues or for specific individual events, as well as offering practical advice to staff — procedures that have gone on to be approved and praised by local licensing authorities and the emergency services.

Our emergency planning covers the following areas:

  • Major Incident Planning
  • Event Management
  • Crowd Management
  • Terrorism & Bomb Threats
  • Suspicious Packages
  • Emergency Evacuations
  • Staff & Management Roles

Our consultants use HSE and Home Office best practice guidelines as a basis for our health and safety and emergency planning work.

Theatre Fire Safety
Pyrotechnic Risk Assessment and Sign-off
Event Hazard Awareness
Working at Heights in Entertainment Venues
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