Guidelines

Guidelines

What happens when four displaced and dysfunctional OHS officers are cut loose in a shopping centre?

Emergency procedures get confused with warm up routines. Accident contingencies end up as crash tests and a lot of padding, plastic cones and perimeter tape is wasted for no apparent reason.

Of course the unsuspecting public of the Federation Square Atrium are much better off for being drilled, audited, and generally patronised in the interests of their own safety.

This collaboration between Jason Maling the vain referee, Harriet Turnbull the neurotic airline hostess, Katie Lee the power hungry security guard and David Simpkin an antisocial maintenance man took place over several weeks as part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival.