MANUFACTURING APPLICATION AND RULES
WWB 2015
1.You must provide your own shade tent. All mixing of compositions must be done out of direct sunlight. Stainless steel bowls are forbidden for mixed comp. Attendees will provide tables and appropriate tools and supporting equipment, such as non-sparking hammers and ramming stations
2.There will be no alcohol consumption inside the fence Sara Park during Winter Blast. Anyone caught drinking will be expelled from the event. This is not negotiable and applies to everyone. Any obvious odor of alcohol on your breath will be considered the same as consuming on site.
3.Anyone perceived to be unruly, unsafe, or under the influence will be removed from the manufacturing area at the discretion of the WPA Staff.
4.Please limit the amount of comp you have out at a time. Keep all extra comp in personal day boxes, or in the manufacturing day box, and bring out only what you need at any given time. There is no reason why there should be pounds of open comp, such as whistle mix, on the table at any given time.
5.Please work on only one item at a time. This will reduce the amount of product out at any given time and allow you to pay full attention to each piece you are building.
6.No one under 18 will be allowed in the general manufacturing area. Minors will not be manufacturing at Winter Blast.
7.In general, flash based salutes are limited to 4” by 8” shells. Flash will not be pre- mixed. The components are to be added separately and mixed inside the sealed shell. Flash for burst charges can be pre mixed to a maximum of one ounce. The manufacture of flash powder and flash based salutes requires the approval of the manufacturing chair or co-chair.
8.Whistle comp will be mixed using the wet method – in a solvent slurry
9.Whistle rockets must not be rammed (hammered). Whistle rockets must be pressed. Personal blast shields are recommended.
10.There is absolutely no smoking or open flames of any kind in the manufacturing area. Please be at least 250 feet down wind when having a smoke. Testing, or any other device ignition, will only occur in an approved testing area.
11.Manufacturing will only be conducted attheSara Parksite and only in the designated manufacturing areas. Manufacturing will close at the designated closing time. Thirty minutes prior to open shooting, all vehicles must be out of manufacturing. No exceptions.
12.Only one vehicle will be allowed per permit and/or two vehicles per manufacturing site. Exceptions for disability will be considered. Vehicles must have their keys inside, have doors and windows closed, and be parked in such a way that you do not need to back up to drive out of the area.
13.The permit holder will provide ALL related items that are needed to safely manufacture their devices. The permit holder is expected to insure that all helpers are aware of and follow the manufacturing rules.
14.Power distribution at Sara Park is severely limited and isin bad repair. Do not count on having electricity available at your site. Inverters provide adequate power for glue guns. If you plan on bringing a generator you will be placed so you can place the generator away from all manufacturing spots.
15.Since you will be manufacturing product during WWB and plan to drive into manufacturing, it will be necessary for you to obtain a special parking permit. This permit is issued to you in the Manufacturing area by the chair or co-chair when you register in manufacturing. This will entitle you to drive into, and park insidethe manufacturing area only. Prior to opening the site for Open Shooting, all vehicles must be removed from the manufacturing area and parked outside the WPA event gates.
16.All pyrotechnic items and comps that are left over from the day’s manufacturing will be stored in the manufacturing day box. Finished rockets will be moved to and stored in the ready trailer at the B-Rockets line prior to open shooting. No rockets will be transported to the B-Rocket ltrailer after open shooting starts.
17.Purchased class B product must be checked in and out at the B magazine. The paperwork allows for the check in/out of partial cases. Modified Class B product must be stored in the manufacturing day box. Unmodified Class B must be returned to, and logged into, the class B magazine for overnight storage.
18.Leaving the enclosed site with class B product (unless in possessionof the proper BATFE license(s) and paperwork)will result in your immediate expulsion from the WPA.
19.When you are setting up, allow for two exit paths. If there is an incident in your spot, everyone needs to be able to exit quickly. Two exits double your chances of getting out without injury. Remember, we are playing with highly energetic materials.
20.Eye protection, closed toe shoes, long pants, and long sleeves are required in the manufacturingarea.
21.A contact phone number for the permit holder will be displayed at the manufacturing site to aid in contact during an emergency.
22.Chuffer rockets cannot be made or launched at Winter Blast.
SOME THOUGHTS REGARDING MANUFACTURING
The manufacturing of pyrotechnic devices has inherent risks. The people involved in manufacturing must exhibit a dedication to safety both for themselves and for those around them.
With that in mind your Manufacturing Chairguys offer the following:
- Be anti-social. Spread out! BATFE requires 57 feet between spaces and 200 feet from roads and magazines. With the new configuration spacing is a great as practical. Make sure your vehicle is between your site and your neighbor’s. Close doors and windows unless loading/unloading.
- If you see an unsafe act, intervene and/or report it.
- Safety and Security will be working closely with Manufacturing. Parking passes will be pulled or wristbands cut for non-compliance with the rules.
- Your car is your blast shield. Keep your windows up and a spare key in the ignition. It should be placed between you and your neighbor and pointed so you do not need to back out in an emergency. If it does its job, you may need a new car.
- Keep the loose powder and live product to a minimum. Use the day box.
- Re-read your liability waiver.
- You are in the desert. Drink lots of water. Dehydration has all the unpleasant side effects of being drunk without all the pleasant primary effects.
- Concentrate on what you are doing. The manufacturing area is open to all adult club members. Don’t allow yourself to be distracted.
- Incidents can happen even if no one does anything wrong. See #6 above.
- Your parking pass means you can park in manufacturing, and only in manufacturing until 4:30 PM.
- Almost every year, people building rockets have problems with drifts hitting spindles. Pay attention! “Non-sparking” only goes so far. Even wood rubbing on wood can make a fire.
- Space considerations limit the number of manufacturing spaces available. This is first come first served. If you do not send this in, you may not have a spot. You may also be teamed up with someone. I try to group new folks with experienced folks. Experienced manufacturers should expect a newbie working with them.
- Salutes must be shot prior to 9:00pm. If you are making rockets with salute headers, paint the header YELLOW so it can be easily identified as a salute in the frantic ten minutes prior to 9:00pm. If you launch a salute rocker without a yellow header, you will not launch after 9:00 PM.
Return this completed unsigned form to:
Bill Ryan
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OK, if you do not want to edit and return this, please let me know by e-mail or phone who will be working with you, what you will be making, and when you are arriving. I will generate your application.
My phone #: 479-295-3759
Your manufacturing-parking pass will be available for pick up in manufacturing when you sign a printout of this form as well as your manufacturing liability waiver.
Do not sign and scan this into your computer to send me. I will delete all applications that are not Microsoft Word documents, or contain scanned signatures. If I delete it, you will not have an application on file. If I can not open it, I will delete it. Sorry about that, but I handle a lot of applications.
I will create an application for you if you e-mail me your information or phone it in to me.
Manufacturing spots are issued on a first come first served basis. Your completed unsigned Word document on file in my computer constitutes your official request for a site. No application on file means no manufacturing request. If you wait until the event, there may not be a spot for you. SPACE IS LIMITED! Remember, most hotels filled up early, so I expect record sign ups.
No parking passes will be issued after 3:15 in the afternoon. The manufacturing chair and co-chair have a daily staff meeting from 3:30 to 4:15. After that they are busy getting manufacturing shut down for open shooting. If you need to unload your vehicle, get there prior to 3:15.
Parking
The manufacturing parking pass expires at 4:30. This means that your vehicle must be moved outside the Winter Blast secured area of Sara Park. Your vehicle must be taken out of the gate by registration and parked in the members parking area. Vehicles with manufacturing parking passes that are found inside the main gate will have their parking pass revoked and/or have their vehicles towed.
Special needs will be reviewed on a case by case basis.
Storage
Remember that manufacturing is a drop area for all displays and part of manufacturing is on the C line. A sealed day box, in the form of a sea container, has been provided for storage of manufactured items and materials in process. This is a safe storage container. A number of manufacturers bring trailers and their own ready boxes. These are acceptable for safe storage as long as the doors and lids are closed. Prior to, and during open shooting, any manufactured items, flammable materials, and combustible materials must be secured in the manufacturing day box, your trailer, or your ready box. Close the container when you are not moving material in or out. Combustible items cannot be left out where they can be ignited by flaming debris, including stars, from the firing lines or displays. Cardboard boxes are not safe storage since the box itself is combustible. Storage under a pop up or under a table is not safe storage.
Rockets
The city of Lake Havasu has imposed a curfew on salutes. Salutes are not to be shot after the curfew. To aid everyone at the B-Rockets line to comply with the curfew, all salute headers must be painted yellow. This allows everyone to identify and fire salutes in the frantic few minutes prior to the curfew.
A rocket with a salute header launched after the curfew will end the offender’s shooting privilege for the night.
The staff safety has the last word when deciding if a header is a salute or not. A header filled with flash powder and half a dozen stars is a salute, not a color shell.
Due to encroachment by spectators and vehicles, chuffer rockets cannot be launched as Sara Park.
I HAVE READ AND UNDERSTOOD THE ABOVE INFORMATION, AND WILL FOLLOW ALL WPA POLICIES. (Date and sign at Sara Park)
NAME:
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Contact phone number ______
DATE:______E-Mail:______
WWB 2015 MANUFACTURING INFORMATION
NAMES OF HELPERS:
WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO MANUFACTURE? (Size does matter!)
DAYS YOU PLAN ON MANUFACTURING
POWER NEEDS
____ I will need electricity at my site. I will be powering: ______
____ I will have my own generator____ I will have an inverter
File Copy
Parking
The manufacturing parking pass expires at 4:30. This means that your vehicle must be moved outside the Winter Blast secured area of Sara Park. Your vehicle must be taken out of the gate by registration and parked in the members parking area. Vehicles with manufacturing parking passes that are found inside the main gate will have their parking pass revoked and/or have their vehicles towed.
Special needs will be reviewed on a case by case basis.
Review date ______Applicant ______Chair/co-chair ______
Storage
Remember that manufacturing is a drop area for all displays and part of manufacturing is on the C line. A sealed day box, in the form of a sea container, has been provided for storage of manufactured items and materials in process. This is a safe storage container. A number of manufacturers bring trailers and their own ready boxes. These are acceptable for safe storage as long as the doors and lids are closed. Prior to, and during open shooting, any manufactured items, flammable materials, and combustible materials must be secured in the manufacturing day box, your trailer, or your ready box. Close the container when you are not moving material in or out. Combustible items cannot be left out where they can be ignited by flaming debris, including stars, from the firing lines or displays. Cardboard boxes are not safe storage since the box itself is combustible. Storage under a pop up or under a table is not safe storage.
Review date ______Applicant ______Chair/co-chair ______
Rockets
The city of Lake Havasu has imposed a curfew on salutes. Salutes are not to be shot after the curfew. To aid everyone at the B-Rockets line to comply with the curfew, all salute headers must be painted yellow. This allows everyone to identify and fire salutes in the frantic few minutes prior to the curfew.
A rocket with a salute header launched after the curfew will end the offender’s shooting privilege for the night.
The staff safety has the last word when deciding if a header is a salute or not. A header filled with flash powder and half a dozen stars is a salute, not a color shell.
Due to encroachment by spectators and vehicles, chuffer rockets cannot be launched as Sara Park.
Review date ______Applicant ______Chair/co-chair ______
WWB 2015
WAIVER OF LIABILITY AND ASSUMPTION OF RISK
(for special parking pass users)
The registrant, undersigned and individuals listed hereby agree to waive any and all liability resulting from any accidents, any negligence, any misuse, any type of participation either directly or indirectly with fireworks and/or the manufacturing of fireworks, with respect to the owner of the land in which the fireworks are to be used, demonstrated, manufactured, sold, bought, displayed or destroyed, the Western Pyrotechnic Association, Inc., its members, officers, agents, employees, successors or licensees, any operator, any permit holder, any event vendor, or any instructor of or for fireworks use, public displays, demonstrations, competitions, sales or purchases of fireworks or fireworks related material or any other Pyrotechnic Event related activity. This waiver of liability goes to any intentional or negligent act that may be performed by the operator of a public display, owner of the land in which the fireworks are to be used, demonstrated, manufactured, sold, bought, displayed or destroyed, the Western Pyrotechnic Association, Inc., its members, officers, agents employees, successors or licensees, permit holder or instructor.
The holder of the special parking pass listed below further agrees to waive all claims for damages that may occur to his/her vehicle and/or personal property while it is parked anywhere on the grounds of the WWBsite. It is expressly understood that any violation, deviation, failure to obey and follow WWBrules, guidelines, or regulations by the registrant or undersigned is cause for the immediate suspension ofWWB 2015 privileges, immediate revocation of membership in the Western Pyrotechnic Association, Inc. and immediate expulsion from the land, without any right to return, upon which said WWB 2015 activities are being held.
The registrant, undersigned and individuals listed expressly state that they are the parent or guardian for any minor listed below and agrees that all terms of the foregoing Waiver of Liability applies to said minors.
The registrant, undersigned and individuals listed below understand that pyrotechnic material is and will be used at WWB 2015. That a risk is associated with the use of pyrotechnic material, even if the pyrotechnic material is handled in an appropriate manner and all applicable safety rules and guidelines are followed. The Registrant or undersigned understand the risk associated with pyrotechnic material and voluntarily assume said risk associated with the use of pyrotechnic material at WWB 2015.
I hereby state that I have read the foregoing Waiver of Liability and Assumption of Risk and will agree to abide by all its terms.
Dated this ____ day of ______, 20___.
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