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JIM SEAY President
Premier Rides
that can be applied globally. The focus is on traditional areas of ride safety (design, operation and maintenance of rollercoasters, family and water rides) plus new products quick- ly expanding on the market (zip lines and trampoline courts).
Seay, Premier Rides
What does your safety work involve? I’ve been chair of ASTM F24 (Amusement Rides and Devic- es) for six years. For six years prior to that, I was vice chair. Before that I served as sub- committee chair for the design and manufacturing standard.
What’s the current focus of the ASTM with regards to safety in theme park rides? All our 1,000-plus members volunteer their time to develop consensus safety standards
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What challenges face the industry at the moment? The dramatic growth of the industry on a global basis, especially in rapidly emerging economies like Brazil, Russia, India and China, is creating a tremendous demand for appli- cable global safety practices and a signifi cant need for expe- rienced talent to build new fa- cilities and get them operating with a high level of safety.
How can these be addressed? Regarding safety practices, ASTM F24 has established two protocols that allow for the adoption of F24 standards by countries with established or emerging economies. ASTM F24 is publishing a Cana- da-specifi c standard that, in addition to current F24 require- ments, includes long-withheld practices important to Canada.
Bolivia recently completed a year-long review of the F24 standards and published their own standards via their stand- ards body IBNORCA, referenc- ing many key F24 standards.
What are the main recent safety improvements? Global efforts regarding education have been signifi - cant and effective. IAAPA has presented safety seminars virtually worldwide with a large audience of suppliers, regula- tors, inspectors and operators. This has made a great impact and helped establish global connections for those who participated. There’s been a strong effort to harmonise safety standards worldwide to ensure a global minimum bar for safe operations at amusement parks everywhere. IAAPA sponsors meetings with experts from countries globally to help determine how best to harmonise existing standards. The ASTM F24 and EURONORM harmonisation ef- fort has been a great success. The rapid adoption of existing standards, especially ASTM F24, by countries with emerg-
ing economies has created an environment where operators acting outside normal bound- aries of safe practices are fewer. Finally, the tremendous amount of volunteering that’s being done for standards has created a resource that can quickly react to new technol- ogies being introduced to the industry and has been able to quickly develop safety stand- ards for those technologies. New trampoline court safety standards are a good example.
Are there any changes to legislation on the horizon? Extensive legislative efforts are occurring worldwide which makes the job of those fo- cused on safety more diffi cult to ensure harmonisation. Of great concern are new stand- ards established by countries that do not take into consider- ation existing efforts of groups like ASTM and EURONORM.
What advice do you have for the industry? The industry shouldn’t fear a focus on safety practices – they result in better perfor- mance and equipment. ●
Three key issues are guest misbehaviour; recruitment and retention of ride operators and engineers; and changes in legislation, especially with regards to disability discrimination
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