Baptistry Sound Check, Tax Files and More
January 1, 2006
Baptistry Safety Check
Never, ever, use a wired microphone in a baptismal pool. Even a normally harmless leakage of stray volts into a microphone is lethal when a person is immersed in water. Make it your church policy that no mains-wired electrical equipment of any sort is to be within arm's reach of a baptistry pool. You should attach a permanent warning display on your PA equipment about this. Your policy should include: • No wired microphone (i.e. connected by a lead to an amplifier) to be used in, or within six feet of a pool. Not even by someone outside the pool holding a long boom towards the pool. (It could fall in and could result in death.) • No other electric audio-visual equipment: camcorders, tape recorders, guitar, etc., connected to mains power even through a low voltage transformer should be used near a pool. • No light fitting or electric socket should be located within six feet. Power sockets, especially those set into the floor, could easily be splashed and make the entire wet area live. Consult a qualified electrician about either totally isolating these circuits with remote double-pole switches, or covering them temporarily with totally waterproof sealing boxes. • All electronic equipment should be grounded. Audio users sometimes disconnect the ground lead to reduce hum. The integrity of ground connections in equipment and within the building should be checked by a qualified electrician. If any item of electrical equipment should fall into the baptistry, occupants should freeze, the item be unplugged (not just switched off) and removed from the water by a dry person from outside the pool. The Tax Files
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